Allium pendulinum

Allium pendulinum, called Italian garlic,[3] is a plant species known only from Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica and mainland Italy.[4]

Italian garlic
Allium pendulinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. pendulinum
Binomial name
Allium pendulinum
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Allium album Spreng. 1825, illegitimate homonym not Santi 1795 nor F. Delaroche 1810
  • Allium triquetrum Sebast. & Mauri 1818, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 nor Lour. 1790 nor Schrad. ex Schult. & Schult f. 1830
  • Allium triquetrum var. pendulinum (Ten.) Regel
  • Allium triquetrum subsp. pendulinum (Ten.) K.Richt.
  • Nectaroscordum pendulinum (Ten.) Galasso & Banfi

Allium pendulinum is a perennial herb up to 25 cm tall but usually much shorter. It generally produces only leaves, both of which wither before flowering time. There is no spathe at flowering time. Umbel has only a few flowers, usually less than 10, all on long pedicels and very often drooping (nodding, hanging downward). Tepals are white, each with three thin prominent green veins; anthers cream; ovary at flowering time green.[5][6]

References
  1. The Plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  4. Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio pendulo, Allium pendulinum
  5. Tenore, Michele. 1811. Flora Napolitana 1: 22.
  6. Schönfelder: Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-440-09361-1
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