Allium decipiens

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| taxon = Allium decipiens

| image_alt = Allium decipiens

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| parent = Allium subg. Melanocrommyum

| image = Allium_decipiens_137576787.jpg

| authority =Fisch. ex Roem. & Schult not M.E.Jones 1902

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• Allium moly Georgi 1779, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
• Allium nigrum M.Bieb. 1808, illegitimate homonym not L. 1762 nor Sm. 1823 nor All. 1785
• Allium bifolium Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
• Allium chloranthum Avé-Lall. ex Regel, not validly published

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Allium decipiens is a Eurasian species of garlic in the amaryllis family native to eastern Europe and western Asia.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295416 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Fritsch, R.M., Blattner, F.R. & Gurushidze, M. (2010). New classification of Allium L. subg. Melanocrommyum (Webb & Berthel.) Rouy (Alliaceae) based on molecular and morphological characters. Phyton: Annales Rei Botanicae 49: 145-320.Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.

Allium decipiens has a spherical bulb. The Scape can go up to 100 cm tall. The leaves are flat and linear-lanceolate. The Umbel is hemispherical with many flowers crowded together. The Tepals are whitish with a dark green midvein. The Ovary is green.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/736344 Roemer, Johann Jakob & Schultes, Josef August. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1117.]{{Cite web |url=http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-13-37-1/bot-37-1-4-1110-7.pdf |title=Őzhatay, Neriman Fatma & Ilker Genç 2013. Allium cyrilli complex (sect. Melanocrommyum ) in Turkey. Turkish Journal of Botany 37:39.45. |access-date=2014-03-28 |archive-date=2014-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328220432/http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-13-37-1/bot-37-1-4-1110-7.pdf |url-status=dead }}

;subspecies

• Allium decipiens subsp. decipiens - Ukraine, European Russia, Western Siberia, Altay Krai, Caucasus, Turkey
• Allium decipiens subsp. quercetorum Seregin - Crimea, northwestern Caucasus