Allium bidentatum

Allium bidentatum is an Asian species of Allium in the amaryllis family. It is native to Mongolia, Russia (Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Krasnoyarsk, Primorye), Kazakhstan, and northern China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Xinjiang ). It grows in well-lit places, sometimes in saline soil.[2]

砂韭 sha jiu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. bidentatum
Binomial name
Allium bidentatum
Fisch. ex Prokh. & Ikonn.-Gal.
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium bidentatum var. andaense Q.S.Sun
  • Allium edentatum Y.P.Hsu
  • Allium omiostema Airy Shaw
  • Allium polyrhizum var. potaninii Regel

Allium bidentatum produces very narrow cylindrical bulbs rarely more than 4 mm across. Scape is round in cross-section, up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are more or less round in cross-section, up to 15 cm long. Umbel is hemispherical, with red or red-violet flowers.[2][3][4][5][6]

Two varieties are recognized.[7]

  • Allium bidentatum var. bidentatum - most of species range
  • Allium bidentatum var. qinggouense Tolgor & Y.T.Zhao - Inner Mongolia

References
  1. The Plant List
  2. Flora of China
  3. Fischer, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, Prokhanov, Jaroslav Ivanovic, & Ikonnikov-Galitzky, Nikolai Petrovic. 1929. Mat. Comm. Etude Republ. Mong. Touva & Bour. 2: 83.
  4. Sun, Qi-shi. 1995. Bulletin of Botanical Research, Harbin 15(3): 332.
  5. Hsu, Ying Peng. 1987. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica 7(4): 258–259, f. 1, 1.
  6. Airy Shaw, Herbert Kenneth. 1931. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 16(78): 144–145.
  7. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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