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Taxon: Allium neapolitanum Cirillo

Genus: Allium subgenus: Amerallium
Family: Amaryllidaceae subfamily: Allioideae tribe: Allieae. Also placed in: Alliaceae Liliaceae
Nomen number: 2324
Place of publication: Pl. rar. neapol. 1:13, t. 4. 1788
Name verified on: 12-Jan-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Jan-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • daffodil garlic   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • false garlic   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  • flowering onion   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • Naples garlic   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • Neapolitan garlic   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  • ail de Naples   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  • Neapellauch   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
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Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands [Tenerife]
    Northern Africa: Egypt [n.]
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey [w.]
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

References:

  • Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt)
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira. (F Madeira)
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace) [cult. & natzd.].
  • Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11–34.
  • Stearn, W. T. 1986. Nothoscordum gracile, the correct name of N. fragrans and the N. inodorum of authors (Alliaceae). Taxon 35:338.
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Allium neapolitanum Cirillo:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • 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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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?2324 (09 February 2010)

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