Allium obliquum

Allium obliquum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Subgenus:	A. subg. Polyprason
Species:	A. obliquum
Binomial name
Allium obliquum L.
Synonyms [1]
Allium exaltatum Kar. & Kir. ex Ledeb. Allium luteum F.Dietr. Allium porrumGeorgi 1779, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 Allium ramosumJacq. 1781, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 Camarilla obliqua (L.) Salisb. Cepa obliqua (L.) Moench Geboscon obliquum (L.) Raf. Moenchia obliqua (L.) Medik.

Allium obliquum, common name lop-sided onion or twisted-leaf onion, is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a range extending from Romania to Mongolia. ^[1] It is also widely cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Allium obliquum produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 3 cm long. Scape is up to 100 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, up to 20 mm across. Umbels are spherical, with many yellow flowers crowded together. ^{[9] [10]}

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Dave's Garden Archived 2022-11-07 at the Wayback Machine /125536/]
3. Brezhnev, D.D., Korovina, O.N. 1981. Wild relatives of cultivated plants in the flora of the USSR. Leningrad: Kolos, pp.96-97 (in Russian). Vvedensky, A.I. 1935. Onion - Allium L. (Flora of the USSR, vol. IV.) Leningrad: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, p.175
4. Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
5. Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
6. Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K.
7. Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
8. Lazkov, G.A. & Turdumatov, N.K. (2010). New and rare species of the genus Allium (Alliaceae) for the flora of Kyrgyzstan. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 95: 1637-1639.
9. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.
10. Flora of China v 24 p 187 高葶韭 gao ting jiu Allium obliquum

External links

• Media related to Allium obliquum at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Allium obliquum at Wikispecies
• "Allium obliquum". Plants for a Future .