Allium nebrodense explained

Allium nebrodense is a rare Italian species of wild onion. It is found only on the Island of Sicily in southern Italy.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Allium nebrodense is unusual in the genus is that the scape is not erect but rather ascending (horizontal in the lower part, then curving upwards). Spathes are also unusual in their conspicuousness, narrowing to a pair of long red claws on either side of the umbel, much longer than the umbel itself. The flowers themselves are yellow.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+nebrodense Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio dei Nebrodi, Allium nebrodense
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=296086 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. http://web.tiscali.it/florasicula/endem/endemic.htm Piante di Sicilia, Allium nebrodense Guss.
4. Gussone, Giovanni. 1827. Florae siculae prodromus i. 404.
5. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11015884#page/751/mode/1up Nyman, Carl Frederik. 1882. Conspectus florae europaeae : seu Enumeratio methodica plantarum phanerogamarum Europae indigenarum, indicatio distributionis geographicae singularum etc. 740..