Allium lehmannii explained

Allium lehmannii is a plant species endemic to southern Italy. It is found only the Island of Sicily in the Mediterranean and in the nearby Calabria region of the Italian mainland.^[1]

Allium lehmannii is a perennial, bulb-forming herb up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are very narrow and thread-like. Flowers are narrowly bell-shaped, the tepal tips spreading outwards but most of the tepals wrapping closely around the anthers and style. Tepals are white with a deep violet midvein.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+lehmannii Altervista Flora Italiana, Schede di Botanica, Allium lehmannii
2. Lojacono, Michele. 1909. Flora Sicula o Descrizione delle Piante Vascolari Spontanee o Indigenate Sicilia 3: 114.
3. Garbari, Fabio. 1988. Atti della Società toscana di scienze naturali residente in Pisa. Memorie B 94: 205, as Allium aethusanum
4. Stearn, William Thomas. 1978. Annales Musei Goulandris; Contributiones ad Historiam Naturalem Graeciae et Regionis Mediterraneae. Kifisia, Athens 4: 161., Allium pallens subsp. siciliense