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Taxon: Allium aflatunense B. Fedtsch.

Genus: Allium subgenus: Melanocrommyum section: Megaloprason
Family: Amaryllidaceae subfamily: Allioideae tribe: Allieae. Also placed in: Alliaceae Liliaceae
Nomen number: 2212
Place of publication: Bull. Herb. Boissier sér. 2, 4:917, t. 7. 1904
Name verified on: 11-Jan-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-Jan-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Man HerbPl; Eur Gard F)
  • Gene sources: ornamental features   (fide Grow Organic Catalog 1998)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Uzbekistan

References:

  • Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Gregory, M. et al. 1998. Nomenclator alliorum. Allium names and synonyms - a world guide. (Nom Alliorum)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Still, S. M. 1994. Manual of herbaceous ornamental plants, ed. 4. (Man HerbPl)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
More:

Check other databases for Allium aflatunense B. Fedtsch.:

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2212 (09 February 2010)

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