Allium tel-avivense
Appearance
Allium tel-avivense | |
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Allium tel-avivense at the Freiburg Botanical Garden | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
Subfamily: | Allioideae |
Genus: | Allium |
Subgenus: | Allium subg. Melanocrommyum |
Species: | A. tel-avivense
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Binomial name | |
Allium tel-avivense | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Allium aschersonianum subsp. tel-avivense (Eig) Oppenh. |
Allium tel-avivense is a plant species found in Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula. It is a bulb-forming perennial with a small umbel of only a few flowers. Tepals are pink, and the ovary is large, green and conspicuous.[2][3][4][5] Its name comes from the city of Tel Aviv.
References
[edit]- ^ "Allium tel-avivense Eig". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ^ "Flora of Israel Online". Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
- ^ World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Eig, Alexander. 1931. Plants of Palestine 75.
- ^ Oppenheimer, Hillel Reinhard. 1940. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève, Sér. 2 31: 189, Allium aschersonianum subsp. tel-avivense