Allium aeginiense explained

Allium aeginiense is a plant species endemic to Greece.[1] It is known only from the area near Meteora in the Thessaly region.

Allium aeginiense produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 25 mm across. Leaves are flat, green, very narrow, up to 10 cm long but rarely more than 1.5 mm wide, covered with hairs up to 2 mm long. Scape is round in cross-section, up to 20 cm tall, hairless, bearing an umbel of up to 40 flowers. Flowers are bell-shaped, pinkish-purple, with yellow anthers and a green ovary.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do;jsessionid=644C171881666AAC48FAA41C1DCEDC50?name_id=456209 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium aeginiense
  2. Salvatore Brullo, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, & Maria Carmen Terrasi. 2008. Allium aeginiense Brullo, Giusso & Terrasi, a new species from Greece. Candollea 63:197-203.