Allium curtum

{{short description|Species of plant}}

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| name =

| taxon = Allium curtum

| parent = Allium subg. Allium

| image = Allium curtum 04.jpg

| authority = Boiss. & Gaill.

| synonyms = *Allium aegyptiacum (Täckh. & Drar) Seregin

• Allium curtum subsp. aegyptiacum Täckh. & Drar
• Allium sphaerocephalon subsp. curtum (Boiss. & Gaill.) Duyfjes
• Allium curtum subsp. typicum Feinbrun
• Allium sanctum Seregin

| synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295385 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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Allium curtum is species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula, Syria and Turkey.{{cite web|url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:527898-1|title= Allium curtum Boiss. & Gaill.|author=|date=n.d.|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date= September 7, 2020}} It is a bulb-forming perennial producing a tight, head-like umbel of green or purple flowers.{{Cite web |url=http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?action=specie&specie=ALLCUR |title=Flora of Israel Online |access-date=2014-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330053127/http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?action=specie&specie=ALLCUR |archive-date=2014-03-30 |url-status=dead }}Pierre Edmond Boissier & Charles Gaillardot. 1859. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae ser. 2, 4: 116.Feinbrun, Naomi. 1943. Polish Botanical Journal 4: 14.Duyfjes-de Wilde, Brigitta Emma Elisabeth. 1976. Mededelingen Landbouwhogeschool 76(11): 52.Täckholm, Vivi & Drar, Mohammed. 1954. Flora of Egypt 3: 69., Allium curtum subsp. aegyptiacumSeregin, Alexey Petrovich. 2004. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii. Moscow & Leningrad 36: 101, Allium aegyptiacum

;Subspecies accepted

• Allium curtum subsp. curtum - Egypt incl Sinai, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus
• Allium curtum subsp. palaestinum Feinbrun - Rafah region in northeastern Sinai