Allium tel-avivense

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Allium tel-avivense
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Allium tel-avivense at the Freiburg Botanical Garden
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: Allium subg. Melanocrommyum
Species:
A. tel-avivense
Binomial name
Allium tel-avivense
Eig
Synonyms [1]

Allium aschersonianum subsp. tel-avivense(Eig) Oppenh.

Allium tel-avivense is a plant species found in Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula. It is a bulb-forming perennial with a small umbel of only a few flowers. Tepals are pink, and the ovary is large, green and conspicuous. [2] [3] [4] [5] Its name comes from the city of Tel Aviv.

References

  1. ↑ "Allium tel-avivense Eig" . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Flora of Israel Online". Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  3. ↑ World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Eig, Alexander. 1931. Plants of Palestine 75.
  5. ↑ Oppenheimer, Hillel Reinhard. 1940. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève, Sér. 2 31: 189, Allium aschersonianum subsp. tel-avivense
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