Allium frigidum

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Allium frigidum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. frigidum
Binomial name
Allium frigidum
Synonyms [1]
  • Allium achaiumBoiss. & Orph.
  • Allium boissieriHausskn. ex Regel

Allium frigidum is a species of plant endemic to Greece. [1]

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Description

Allium frigidum produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 25 mm long. Its scape is up to 30 cm tall, round in cross-section, erect, about 5 mm across. Its eaves are about the same length as the scape, 3 mm wide. Umbel has up to 45 flowers, the pedicels unequal in length. Flowers are bell-shaped, pale yellow tinged with pink. Anthers are yellow, ovary green. [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Allium frigidum Boiss. & Heldr". Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. Pierre Edmond Boissier & Theodhoros Georgios Orphanides. 1882. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae 5: 259.
  3. Sandro Bogdanovic´, Cristian Brullo, Salvatore Brullo, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Carmelo Maria Masarella, & Christina Salmeri. 2011. Allium achaium Boiss. (Alliadceae), a critical species of Greek flora. Candollea 66:57-64.