Allium delicatulum

2015-04-12T13:40:39Z

Joseph Laferriere: range clarification

{{Speciesbox
|name = <big>迷人薤</big> mi ren xie
|genus = Allium | species = delicatulum
|authority = [[Johann Erasmus Sievers|Siev.]] ex [[Julius Hermann Schultes|Schult. f.]]
|synonyms=*''[[Allium dolonkarense]]'' Regel
*''[[Allium pusillum]]'' Willd.
*''[[Allium stenophyllum]]'' Regel ex Herder
*''[[Allium viridulum]]'' Kar. & Kir.
*''[[Allium willdenowii]]'' Kunth
|synonyms_ref=<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-295421 The Plant List]</ref><ref name=olga/>
}}
'''''Allium delicatulum''''' is a Eurasian species of onion native to [[European Russia]], [[Western Siberian economic region|Western Siberia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Kazakhstan]].<ref name=olga>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=295421 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> It grows in open grasslands and deserts.<ref name="iuiuuuiiiuiiu">[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001019 Flora of China v 24 p 198. <big>迷人薤</big> mi ren xie ''Allium delicatulum'' ]</ref>

''Allium delicatulum'' produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 15 mm across. [[Scape (botany)|Scapes]] are up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are round and hollow, shorter than the scapes. Flowers have white or pink [[tepals]] with dark red midveins.<ref name="iuiuuuiiiuiiu"/><ref>[http://www.botanicus.org/page/736360 Roemer, Johann Jakob, & Schultes, Josef August. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1133.]</ref><ref>Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR. </ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Allium|delicatulum]]
[[Category:Onions]]
[[Category:Flora of Xinjiang]]
[[Category:Flora of Russia]]
[[Category:Flora of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1830]]

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