Allium lusitanicum

Portuguese onion; or mountain onion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Subgenus:	A. subg. Rhizirideum
Species:	A. lusitanicum
Binomial name
	Allium lusitanicum; Lam.
Synonyms
	Allium acutangulum Rchb.; Allium acutangulum Ambros.; Allium angulosum DC.; Allium angulosum var. montanum Pohl; Allium fallax Schult. & Schult.f.; Allium fallax subsp. montanum (Pohl) Fr.; Allium fallens Bubani; Allium leptophyllum Schur; Allium montanum F.W.Schmidt; Allium montanum var. fallax (Schult. & Schult.f.) Nyman; Allium montanum subsp. leptophyllum (Schur) Soó; Allium montanum var. leptophyllum (Schur) Nyman; Allium montanum subsp. lusitanicum (Lam.) Nyman; Allium montanum f. subbulbiliferum Priszter; Allium petraeum Genty; Allium schoenoprasum subsp. lusitanicum (Lam.) K.Richt.; Allium senescens Host; Allium senescens subsp. lusitanicum (Lam.) Dostál; Allium senescens subsp. montanum (Pohl) Holub;

Allium lusitanicum is a plant species widespread over much of Europe, mostly in mountainous regions. It has been reported from every country on the continent from Portugal to Ukraine except Iceland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Albania and Greece.^[3]^[4]

Allium lusitanicumm is a bulb-forming perennial with thread-like leaves shorter than the stipes. Stipes are up to 20 cm tall. Tepals, anthers and styles are all a uniform shade of rose-violet.^[5]

References

[1] Tropicos

[2] The Plant List

[3] Altervista Flora Italiana, Schede di Botanica. Allium lusicanicum

[4] Friesen, Nikolai. 1998. Taxonon\my, chronology and evolution of Allium lusitanicum, the European Allium senescens. Linzer Biologische Beitraege. Linz. 30:815-830.

[5] Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. 1783. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1: 70.

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