Sicilian Garlic
Aglio di Coppoler
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. lehmannii
Binomial name
Allium lehmannii
Lojac.
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium aethusanum Garbari
  • Allium pallens subsp. siciliense Stearn

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.[2]

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.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List
  2. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Schede di Botanica, Allium lehmannii
  3. ↑ Lojacono, Michele. 1909. Flora Sicula o Descrizione delle Piante Vascolari Spontanee o Indigenate Sicilia 3: 114.
  4. ↑ Garbari, Fabio. 1988. Atti della Società toscana di scienze naturali residente in Pisa. Memorie B 94: 205, as Allium aethusanum
  5. ↑ Stearn, William Thomas. 1978. Annales Musei Goulandris; Contributiones ad Historiam Naturalem Graeciae et Regionis Mediterraneae. Kifisia, Athens 4: 161., Allium pallens subsp. siciliense
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