Allium tenuissimum

Allium tenuissimum is an Asian species of wild onion native to Mongolia, Asiatic Russia, Korea, Kazakhstan and China.[1][2][3]

细叶韭 xi ye jiu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. tenuissimum
Binomial name
Allium tenuissimum
Synonyms[1]

Allium tenuissimum var. purpureum Regel

Allium tenuissimum produces a cluster of small, narrow bulbs. Scapes are up to 50 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scapes, about 10 mm in diameter. Flowers are white or pink with a narrow red midvein along each of the tepals.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Varieties[1]
  • Allium tenuissimum var. nalinicum S.Chen - Inner Mongolia
  • Allium tenuissimum var. tenuissimum - most of specific range
formerly included[1]
  • Allium tenuissimum var. anisopodium, now called Allium anisopodium
  • Allium tenuissimum f. zimmermannianum, now called Allium anisopodium var. zimmermannianum


References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Flora of China v 24 p 185 细叶韭 xi ye jiu Allium tenuissimum
  3. 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
  4. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 301.
  5. Chen, Shan. 1983. Flora Intramongolica 8: 348, 199.
  6. Sun, Qi-shi. 1992. Flora Liaoningica 2: 717.
  7. Regel, Eduard August von. 1887. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 10(1): 342.
  8. Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Alliorum Adhuc Cognitorum Monographia 175.
  9. MU Qi yun (Department of Food Engineering,Shaanxi Normal University,Xian 710062,China);Study on the chemical composition of the flower of Allium tenuissimum by GC-MS[J];Acta Botanica Boreali-occidentalia Sinica;2001-06
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