Allium iranicum

Allium iranicum is a species of wild leek native to Iraq and Iran.[2] It is used in traditional Iranian medicine as a treatment for hemorrhoids.[3] Its chromosome number is 2n=32.[4]

Allium iranicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. iranicum
Binomial name
Allium iranicum
Synonyms[2]

Allium ampeloprasum subsp. iranicum Wendelbo

References

  1. Fl. Iraq 8: 158 (1985)
  2. "Allium iranicum (Wendelbo) Wendelbo". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  3. Mosavat, Seyed Hamdollah; Ghahramani, Leila; Sobhani, Zahra; Haghighi, Ehsan Rahmanian; Chaijan, Mahsa Rostami; Heydari, Mojtaba (2015). "The effect of leek (Allium iranicum (Wendelbo)) leaves extract cream on hemorrhoid patients: A double blind randomized controlled clinical trial". European Journal of Integrative Medicine. 7 (6): 669–673. doi:10.1016/j.eujim.2015.08.008.
  4. Ghaffari, Seyed (2006). "New cytogenetic information on Allium iranicum (Alliaceae) from Iran". Biologia. 61 (4). doi:10.2478/s11756-006-0067-z. S2CID 30344580.


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