Allium bidentatum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| taxon = Allium bidentatum

| parent = Allium subg. Rhizirideum

| authority = Fisch. ex Prokh. & Ikonn.-Gal.

| synonyms =

• Allium bidentatum var. andaense Q.S.Sun
• Allium edentatum Y.P.Hsu
• Allium omiostema Airy Shaw
• Allium polyrhizum var. potaninii Regel

| synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-295129 The Plant List]

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Allium bidentatum is an Asian species of plant in the amaryllis family. It is native to Mongolia, Russia (Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Krasnoyarsk, Primorye), Kazakhstan, and northern China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Xinjiang ). It grows in well-lit places, sometimes in saline soil.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027452 Flora of China]

Allium bidentatum produces very narrow cylindrical bulbs rarely more than 4 mm across. Scape is round in cross-section, up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are more or less round in cross-section, up to 15 cm long. Umbel is hemispherical, with red or red-violet flowers.Fischer, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, Prokhanov, Jaroslav Ivanovic, & Ikonnikov-Galitzky, Nikolai Petrovic. 1929. Mat. Comm. Etude Republ. Mong. Touva & Bour. 2: 83.Sun, Qi-shi. 1995. Bulletin of Botanical Research, Harbin 15(3): 332.Hsu, Ying Peng. 1987. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica 7(4): 258–259, f. 1, 1.Airy Shaw, Herbert Kenneth. 1931. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 16(78): 144–145.

Two varieties are recognized.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do;jsessionid=E0F5D3820A7A9E3CCAACA9EF81D4388B Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

• Allium bidentatum var. bidentatum - most of species range
• Allium bidentatum var. qinggouense Tolgor & Y.T.Zhao - Inner Mongolia