Allium hirtovaginatum

Allium hirtovaginatum is a species of wild onion native to the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and the Balearic Islands to Turkey.[2][1]

Allium hirtovaginatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. hirtovaginatum
Binomial name
Allium hirtovaginatum
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium cupani subsp. anatolicum Stearn
  • Allium cupani var. hirtovaginatum (Kunth) Halácsy
  • Allium cupani f. hirtovaginatum (Kunth) Vindt
  • Allium cupani subsp. hirtovaginatum (Kunth) Stearn
  • Allium moschatum d'Urv. 1822, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium pisidicum Boiss. & Heldr.

Allium hirtovaginatum produces an egg-shaped bulb. Scape is up to 50 cm, round in cross-section, thin and flexible. Leaves are very thin and hair-like. Umbel has only a few flowers. Flowers bell-shaped, the tepals white with dark purple midvein. Ovary is covered with long hairs.[3][4][5][6]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio moscato, Allium hirtovaginatum
  3. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Secundum Familias Naturales Disposita, Adjectis Characteribus, Differentiis et Synonymis. Stutgardiae et Tubingae 4: 412.
  4. Stearn, William Thomas. 1978. Annales Musei Goulandris; Contributiones ad Historiam Naturalem Graeciae et Regionis Mediterraneae. Kifisia, Athens 4: 151 and 154, as Allium cupani subsp. anatolicum and Allium cupani subsp. hirtovaginatum
  5. Vindt, Jacques. 1953. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 33: 121
  6. Halácsy, Eugen von. 1904. Conspectus Florae Graecae 3: 253. as Allium cupani var. hirtovaginatum
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