Allium frigidum

Allium frigidum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. frigidum
Binomial name
Allium frigidum
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium achaium Boiss. & Orph.
  • Allium boissieri Hausskn. ex Regel

Allium frigidum is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.[2] It is endemic to Greece.[1]

Description

Allium frigidum produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 25 mm long. Its scape is up to 30 cm tall, round in cross-section, erect, about 5 mm across. Its eaves are about the same length as the scape, 3 mm wide. Umbel has up to 45 flowers, the pedicels unequal in length. Flowers are bell-shaped, pale yellow tinged with pink. Anthers are yellow, ovary green.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Allium frigidum Boiss. & Heldr". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ "Allium frigidum Boiss. & Heldr". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000. n.d. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
  3. ^ Pierre Edmond Boissier & Theodhoros Georgios Orphanides. 1882. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae 5: 259.
  4. ^ Sandro Bogdanovic´, Cristian Brullo, Salvatore Brullo, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Carmelo Maria Masarella, & Christina Salmeri. 2011. Allium achaium Boiss. (Alliadceae), a critical species of Greek flora. Candollea 66:57-64.