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Allium feinbergii

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Allium feinbergii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. feinbergii
Binomial name
Allium feinbergii

Allium feinbergii is a species of onions found on Mount Hermon, near where the three nations of Israel, Syria, and Lebanon meet. It is a bulb-forming perennial producing an umbel of flowers. Flowers are reddish-purple, narrowly urn-shaped, on long peduncles so that most of them are drooping.[1][2][3]

References

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  1. ^ "Flora of Israel Online". Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  2. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Hillel Reinhard Oppenheimer. 1940. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève, Sér. 2 31: 185.