Allium stipitatum

Allium stipitatum
'Mount Everest'
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: Allium subg. Melanocrommyum
Species:
A. stipitatum
Binomial name
Allium stipitatum
Synonyms[3]
  • Allium hirtifolium Boissier
  • Allium atropurpureum var. hirtulum Regel

Allium stipitatum, Persian shallot,[4] is an Asian species of onion native to central and southwestern Asia.

Some sources regard Allium stipitatum and A. hirtifolium as the same species,[3] while others treat A. stipitatum and A. hirtifolium as distinct.[5] Allium stipitatum in the more inclusive sense occurs in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.[3]

The epithet stipitatum means 'with a little stalk' referring to the ovary.[6]

  1. ^ Eduard August von Regel. 1881. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaniceskago Sada. Acta Horti Petropolitani 7: 546
  2. ^ http The International Plant Names Index
  3. ^ a b c "Allium stipitatum", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2012-02-27
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ebrahimia2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Davies, Dilys (1992), Alliums : the ornamental onions, London: B.T. Batsford (in association with the Hardy Plant Society), ISBN 978-0-7134-7030-7, p. 101f. and p. 137f.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Davies1992p137 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).