Allium asarense

{{Short description|Species of plant in the family Amaryllidaceae}}

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|status_system=IUCN3.1

|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=Rhodes, L. |author2=Maxted, N. |year=2016 |title=Allium asarense |volume=2016 |page=e.T20665717A20694971 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20665717A20694971.en |access-date=5 September 2023 }}

|taxon=Allium asarense

|parent=Allium subg. Cepa

|authority=R.M.Fritsch & Matin

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Allium asarense is a species of wild onion in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to north-central Iran.{{cite POWO |id=20002422-1 |title=Allium asarense R.M.Fritsch & Matin |access-date=22 April 2022 }} Out of the approximately 1000 species of Allium it and Allium vavilovii are the closest known relatives of the common onion Allium cepa.{{cite journal |year=2001 |last1=Fritsch |first1=Reinhard M. |last2=Matin |first2=Farideh |last3=Klaas |first3=Manfred |title=Allium vavilovii M. Popov et Vved. and a new Iranian species are the closest among the known relatives of the common onion A. cepa L. (Alliaceae) |journal=Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=401–408 |doi=10.1023/A:1012034931024 |s2cid=28813594 }}