Allium leucocephalum

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. leucocephalum
Binomial name
Allium leucocephalum
Turcz. ex Ledeb.

Allium leucocephalum is an Asian species native to Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Heilongjiang. [1] [2] [3]

Allium leucocephalum produces one or two bulbs, each up to 13 mm across. Scape is up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are more or less tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is spherical crowded with many white or very pale yellow flowers. [1] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Flora of China v 24 p 182 白头韭 bai tou jiu Allium leucocephalum
  2. Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K.
  3. Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  4. Karl Friedrich von Ledebour. 1854. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 27(2): 123.
  5. line drawing of Allium leucocephalum, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 186, 1-3
  6. Karl Friedrich von Ledebour. 1852. Flora Rossica sive Enumeratio Plantarum in Totius Imperii Rossici Provinciis Europaeis, Asiaticis, et Americanis Hucusque Observatarum. Stuttgartiae 4(12): 179.
  7. Komarov, Vladimir Leontyevich. 1935. Flora URSS. 4: 146. 1935.