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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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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 24: 186 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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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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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 24: 186 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Allium rubens

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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.[2][3][4]

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.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ Tropicos, search for Allium rubens
  2. ^ Flora of China v 24 p 186
  3. ^ Agroatlas Агроэкологический атлас России и сопредельных государств: сельскохозяйственные растения, их вредители, болезни и сорняки
  4. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. ^ Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1809. Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Botanici Berolinensis 1: 360.
  6. ^ Malyshev LI., Peshkova GA., ed. 1987. Flora of Siberia. V.4. Araceae - Orchidaceae. Novosibirsk: Nauka.
  7. ^ Vvedensky AI. 1935. Onion . Allium L. In: Komarov VL., ed. Flora URSS. V.4. Moscow; Leningrad: AN SSSR.
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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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