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This species has been collected only in the Baltistan area in Pakistan.
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Description
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Bulbs tufted, cylindrical, light brown, reticulate fibrous. Leaves 3-5, narrowly linear, not fistular. Scapes 20-40 cm long. Umbels few flowered. Pedicels c. 2 cm long. Tepals pink, 5-7 mm long, oblong to lanceolate with a recurved mucro. Filaments shorter than the tepals, connate at the base, entire, outer linear, narrow, inner broadly flattened, oblong.
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Description
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Bulbs clustered, narrowly ovoid-cylindric, 0.5--1 cm in diam.; tunic yellowish brown, reticulate. Leaves narrowly linear, shorter than (sometimes 1/2 as long as) scape, 1--3(--4) mm wide. Scape 11--30(--40) cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1- or 2-valved, persistent. Umbel fascicled to hemispheric, few flowered. Pedicels subequal, 1.5--3 × as long as perianth, bracteolate. Perianth pale red to white; segments with dark purple midvein, obovate-elliptic to broadly so, 4.2--7 × 2.5--4 mm, apex with a conduplicate and reflexed point; inner ones usually shorter and wider than outer. Filaments 1/2--3/4 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments for 1.2--1.5 mm; outer ones narrowly triangular, slightly shorter than inner and ca. 1/2 as wide at base; inner ones broadly triangular. Ovary subglobose, without concave nectaries at base. Style not exserted; stigma slightly 3-cleft. Fl. and fr. Jun--Aug. 2 n = 16, 48.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Turkestan, W.Tibet, and Pakistan.
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Distribution
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Xinjiang, W Xizang [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan].
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl.Per.: August-September.
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Habitat
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Sunny slopes, stony shores of rivers; 1200--2700 m.
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Allium oreoprasum
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Allium oreoprasum is a species of wild onion native to Central Asia. It has been found in Xinjiang, Tibet, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan[1] It grows at elevations of 1200–2700 m.
Allium oreoprasum produces clumps of narrow bulbs up to 10 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 40 cm tall. Umbel has only a few flowers. Tepals are white or pale red with a dark purple midvein.[1][2][3]
References
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^ a b Flora of China v 26 p 180.
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^ Schrenk, Alexander Gustav von. 1842. Bulletin scientifique (publié par l’) Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 10: 354.
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^ Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980-2005. Flora of Pakistan University of Karachi, Karachi.
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Allium oreoprasum: Brief Summary
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Allium oreoprasum is a species of wild onion native to Central Asia. It has been found in Xinjiang, Tibet, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan It grows at elevations of 1200–2700 m.
Allium oreoprasum produces clumps of narrow bulbs up to 10 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 40 cm tall. Umbel has only a few flowers. Tepals are white or pale red with a dark purple midvein.
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