Description
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Bulbs clustered, narrowly conical, 0.5--1 cm in diam., attached to a horizontal rhizome; tunic light brown, subleathery, subentire. Leaves subequaling scape, 1--1.5(--2) mm wide, adaxially channeled, margin ± scabrous. Scape 10--25 cm, terete, slightly angled, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe persistent. Umbel hemispheric to globose, few flowered. Pedicels equal, 2(--3) × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth purple-red; segments with conspicuous midvein, broadly elliptic to ovate, (4--)5 mm, apex obtuse; outer ones boat-shaped; inner ones slightly longer than outer. Filaments subulate, subequal, 1--2 × as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments. Ovary subglobose, without concave nectaries at base. Style not exserted. Fl. and fr. Jun--Aug. 2 n = 16.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Scrub, stony slopes, steppes. NW Xinjiang (Toli Xian) [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia].
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Allium rubens: Brief Summary
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Allium rubens, the reddish onion, is a species of onions native to Siberia, European Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Xinjiang. It grows in sunlit locations on steppes and scrublands.
Allium rubens produces clusters of small, narrow bulbs up to 10 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 25 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, about the same length as the scape, 10–20 mm in diameter. Umbels have only a few reddish-purple flowers.
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