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
	Allium exaltatum Kar. & Kir. ex Ledeb.; Allium luteum F.Dietr.; Allium porrum Georgi 1779, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753; Allium ramosum Jacq. 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

^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Dave's Garden/125536/]
^ 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
^ Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
^ Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
^ Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K.
^ Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
^ 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.
^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.
^ 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.

[kimmie-1] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

[2] Dave's Garden/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.

[freetibet-10] Flora of China v 24 p 187 高葶韭 gao ting jiu Allium obliquum

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