Allium weschniakowii

Species of flowering plant

Лук Вешнякова
坛丝韭 tan si jiu
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. weschniakowii
Binomial name
Allium weschniakowii

Allium weschniakowii is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.[1]

Allium weschniakowii has a cluster of narrow bulbs rarely more than 5 mm in diameter. Scape is rather short of the genus, only up to 16 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel has only a few red to violet flowers.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Flora of China v 24 p 185 坛丝韭 tan si jiu Allium weschniakowii
  2. ^ Regel, Eduard August von. 1880. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 6(2): 531.
  • Line drawings of Allium weschniakowii + A. atrosanguineum, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 175.
Taxon identifiers
Allium weschniakowii