Allium subvillosum

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Allium subvillosum, the spring garlic, is a European and North African species of wild onion native to southern Iberia, the Balearic Islands, Sicily, northern Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Canary Islands) and the Azores[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] where it might be introduced.[9]

Spring garlic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. subvillosum
Binomial name
Allium subvillosum
Synonyms[1]
Species synonymy
  • Allium album var. purpurascens Maire & Weiller
  • Allium chamaemoly Viv. 1824, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium humbertii Maire
  • Allium subhirsutum Desf.
  • Allium subhirsutum Rchb.
  • Allium subhirsutum var. canariense Regel
  • Allium subhirsutum f. purpurascens (Maire & Weiller) Vindt
  • Allium subhirsutum var. purpurascens (Maire & Weiller) Maire & Weiller
  • Allium subhirsutum var. subvillosum (Salzm. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Ball
  • Allium subhirsutum subsp. subvillosum (Salzm. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Duyfjes
  • Allium subhirsutum var. vernale (Tineo) Bonnet & Barratte
  • Allium vernale Tineo

Allium subvillosum is a bulb-forming perennial up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are long and narrow, with long white hairs clearly visible to the naked eye. Umbel is hemispherical, with 15-20 flowers on long pedicels. Flowers are white with yellow anthers.[10][11]

formerly included[12]

Allium subvillosum var. clusianum, now called Allium subhirsutum

References

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  1. ^ The Plant List
  2. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio subvilloso, Allium subvillosum
  3. ^ Maire, René Charles Joseph Ernest. 1935. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 26: 121. Allium album var. purpurascens
  4. ^ Viviani, Domenico. 1824. Flora Libycae Specimen 19, Allium chamaemoly
  5. ^ Maire, Réné Charles Joseph Ernest. 1926. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord. Algiers xvii. 124, hybr., Allium humbertii
  6. ^ Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 249. Allium subhirsutum var. canariense
  7. ^ Bonnet, Edmond & Barratte, Jean François Gustave 1896. Exploration Scientifique de la Tunisie. Catalogue Raisonné des Plantes Vasculaires de la Tunisie 414, Allium subhirsutum var. vernale
  8. ^ Flores Silvestres del Mediterráneo, Allium subvillosum
  9. ^ "Allium subvillosum Salzm. ex Schult. & Schult.f." Flora-On. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  10. ^ Josef August Schultes & Julius Hermann Schultes. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1104.
  11. ^ Ball, John. 1879. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 16: 691
  12. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families