Allium griffithianum

Allium griffithianum is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae family.[3] It is an onion found in the high mountains of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It is a perennial herb up to 40 cm tall, with a hemispherical umbel of flowers, white or light pink or pale purple.[4][2][5][6][7][8]

Allium griffithianum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. griffithianum
Binomial name
Allium griffithianum
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Allium bahri Regel
  • Allium jacquemontii var. grandiflorum (Boiss.) Aswal
  • Allium kuschakewiczii Regel
  • Allium rubellum var. grandiflorum Boiss.
  • Allium tenue Regel
  • Allium tschulpias Regel

References
  1. The Plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. "Allium griffithianum Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  4. Flora of Pakistan
  5. Pierre Edmond Boissier. 1859. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae ser. 2, 4: 117.
  6. Merkodovich, N.A. (ed.) (1941). Flora Uzbekistana 1: 1-566. Izd-va Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Tashkent.
  7. Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 2: 1-454. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva
  8. Lazkov, G.A., Ganybaeva, M.R. & Toktosunova, K.R. (2007). New and rare species for the flora of Kirghizia. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 92: 1071-1076.
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