Allium sacculiferum

Allium sacculiferum, also called northern plain chive[3] or triangular chive,[3] is an East Asian species of wild onion native to Japan, Korea, eastern Russia (Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk, Primorye), and northeastern China (Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning).[2] It is found along the banks of lakes and rivers at elevations less than 500 m.[4][5][6][7]

Allium sacculiferum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. sacculiferum
Binomial name
Allium sacculiferum
Synonyms[1][2]

Allium sacculiferum makes one or two egg-shaped bulbs up to 20 mm across. Scapes are up to 70 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, up to 5 mm across. Umbels are spherical, with many flowers crowded together. Tepals are lilac to reddish-violet with darker midveins.[4][8][9][10][11]

References
  1. The plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 347. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
  4. Flora of China v 24 p 196, 朝鲜薤 chao xian xie Allium sacculiferum
  5. Choi, H.J. and Oh, B.U. (2011), A partial revision of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) in Korea and north-eastern China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 167: 153–211. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01166.x
  6. Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.
  7. Lee, W.T. (1996). Lineamenta Florae Koreae: 1-1688. Soul T'ukpyolsi: Ak'ademi Sojok.
  8. Maximowicz, Carl Johann. 1859. Mémoires Presentes a l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg par Divers Savans et lus dans ses Assemblées 9: 281.
  9. Vvedensky, Aleksei Ivanovich. 1934. Byulleten' Sredne-Aziatskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Tashkent xix. I 19
  10. S.O.Yu , S.Lee & W.Lee. 1981. Journal of Korean Plant Taxonomy. Seoul 11(1–2): 30 (as Allium deltoidefistulosum)
  11. Y.Z.Zhao & J.Y.Chao. 1989. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Intramongolicae. Hohhot. 20(2): 241, Allium yuchuanii.
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