Allium obliquum

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamilia: Allioideae
Tribus: Allieae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Polyprason
Sectio: A. sect. Oreoprason
Species: Allium obliquum
Name

Allium obliquum L., (1753).
Synonyms

Homotypic
Camarilla obliqua (L.) Salisb., Gen. Pl.: 91 (1866), nom. inval.
Cepa obliqua (L.) Moench, Methodus: 243. (1794).
Geboscon obliquum (L.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2: 19. (1837).
Moenchia obliqua (L.) Medik., Hist. & Commentat. Acad. Elect. Sci. Theod.-Palat. 6(Phys.): 493. (1790).

Heterotypic
Allium exaltatum Kar. & Kir. ex Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 4: 173 (1852), pro syn.
Allium luteum F.Dietr., Vollst. Lex. Gärtn., ed. 2, 1: 265. (1824).
Allium porrum Georgi, Beschr. Nation. Russ. Reich 3(4): 891 (1779), nom. illeg.
Allium ramosum Jacq., Misc. Austriac. 2: 303 (1781), nom. illeg.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Asia-Temperate
Altay, East European Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Romania, South European Russia, West Siberia, Xinjiang

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 296. Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Allium obliquum in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 23. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2018. Allium obliquum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 23. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Allium obliquum. Published online. Accessed: Jul. 23 2018.

Vernacular names
English: Twisted-Leaf Garlic

Allium obliquum, common name lop-sided onion or twisted-leaf onion, is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a range extending from Romania to Mongolia.[1] It is also widely cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Allium obliquum produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 3 cm long. Scape is up to 100 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, up to 20 mm across. Umbels are spherical, with many yellow flowers crowded together.[9][10]
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Brezhnev, D.D., Korovina, O.N. 1981. Wild relatives of cultivated plants in the flora of the USSR. Leningrad: Kolos, pp.96-97 (in Russian). Vvedensky, A.I. 1935. Onion - Allium L. (Flora of the USSR, vol. IV.) Leningrad: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, p.175
Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K..
Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
Lazkov, G.A. & Turdumatov, N.K. (2010). New and rare species of the genus Allium (Alliaceae) for the flora of Kyrgyzstan. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 95: 1637-1639.
Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.
Flora of China v 24 p 187 高葶韭 gao ting jiu Allium obliquum