Allium winklerianum

Allium winklerianum is an Asian species of onion native to Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.[1][2] It is also cultivated as an ornamental elsewhere because of the pretty flowers and also because of the strong lilac scent to the blooms.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

伊犁蒜 yi li suan
Fonzarelli's onion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. winklerianum
Binomial name
Allium winklerianum

Allium winklerianum has a round bulb up to 2 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 40 cm tall. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, up to 25 mm across. Umbel is hemispheric, with many flowers crowded together. Tepals are lilac-colored.[2][9]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Flora of China v 24 p 201 伊犁蒜 yi li suan Allium winklerianum
  3. Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.
  4. "Rare Plants UK, Allium winklerianum". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  5. Pacific Rim Native Plant Nursery, Chilliwack Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
  6. Merkodovich, N.A. (ed.) (1941). Flora Uzbekistana 1: 1-566. Izd-va Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Tashkent.
  7. Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 2: 1-454. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
  8. Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
  9. Regel, Eduard August von. 1884. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 8: 661.
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