Allium setifolium

Allium setifolium is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. It occurs in desert regions at elevations of 400–1000 m.[1][2][3][4]

Лук щетинолистный
丝叶韭 si ye jiu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. setifolium
Binomial name
Allium setifolium

Allium setifolium is well-adapted to life in a hot, arid environment. It has a cluster of narrow, egg-shaped bulbs each up to 10 mm in diameter. Scape is very short for the genus, rarely more than 10 cm tall. Leaves are reduced to hair-like bristles only 200-300 μm in diameter. Umbel has only a few red flowers.[1][5][6]

References

  1. Flora of China v 24 p 191, 丝叶韭 si ye jiu Allium setifolium
  2. Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
  3. Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
  4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer & Carl Anton von Meyer. 1841. Enumeratio plantarum novarum a cl. Schrenk lectarum 1: 6-7 in Latin
  6. line drawing of Allium setifolium, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 209, 4-6
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