Allium tuberosum

Allium tuberosum
Flowering garlic chives
Allium tuberosum from a store
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Butomissa
Species:
A. tuberosum
Binomial name
Allium tuberosum
Rottler ex Spreng. 1825 not Roxb. 1832[1][2]
Synonyms[1][3]
Synonymy
  • Allium angulosum Lour. 1790, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium argyi H.Lév.
  • Allium chinense Maxim 1859, illegitimate homonym not G.Don 1827
  • Allium clarkei Hook.f.
  • Allium roxburghii Kunth
  • Allium sulvia Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Allium tricoccum auct. non Blanco
  • Allium tuberosum Roxb. 1832, illegitimate homonym not Rottler ex Spreng. 1825
  • Allium tuberosum f. yezoense (Nakai) M.Hiroe
  • Allium uliginosum G.Don
  • Allium yesoense Nakai
  • Allium yezoense Nakai
  • Nothoscordum sulvia (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kunth

Allium tuberosum (garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Asian chives, Chinese chives, Chinese leek) is a species of plant native to the Chinese province of Shanxi, and cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in Asia and around the world.[1][4][5][6] It has a number of uses in Asian cuisine.

  1. ^ a b c WCSPF 2015.
  2. ^ Linnaeus 1825.
  3. ^ TPL 2013.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Flora of China was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Allium tuberosum". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
  6. ^ PFAF 2012, Allium tuberosum – Rottler. ex Spreng..