Allium parciflorum
| Few Flowered Garlic | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Tribe: | Allieae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. parciflorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium parciflorum Viv. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Allium parciflorum is a plant species known only from the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean.[2][3] It is common at all elevations on those two islands but unknown elsewhere.[4]
Allium parciflorum has egg-shaped bulbs. Scape is up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are thin and tubular, about the same length as the scape but withering before flowering time. Umbels have very few bell-shaped flowers. Tepals are white to pale lavender with prominent dark purple midveins.[5][6][7][8]
Allium parciflorum is closely related to Allium lojaconoi, endemic to Malta.[9]
References
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Viviani, Domenico. 1824. Florae Corsicae specierum novarum vel minus cognitarum diagnosis quam in Florae Italicae fragmenti alterius prodromum, Appendix page 2
- ↑ Tropicos, Allium parciflorum Viv.
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio paucifloro, Allium parciflorum'
- ↑ Viviani, Domenico. 1825. Appendix altera ad florae Corsicae Prodromus: 2.
- ↑ Flora di Sardegna, plantae endemicae, Allium parciflorum
- ↑ Allium parciflorum, Flora di Sardegna
- ↑ Acta Plantarum, Galleria della Flora italiana, Allium parciflorum Viv. color photos, captions in Italian
- ↑ Salvatore Brullo, E. Lanfranco, Pietro Pavone. 1982. Allium lojaconoi sp. nov. e sue affinita con Allium parciflorum Viv. Webbia 35(2): 295–306.
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