Allium frigidum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| genus = Allium

| species = frigidum

| authority = Boiss. & Heldr.

| synonyms = *Allium achaium Boiss. & Orph.

  • Allium boissieri Hausskn. ex Regel

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Allium frigidum is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.{{cite web |url= https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5TXC8 |title= Allium frigidum Boiss. & Heldr. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Catalogue of Life |publisher=Species 2000 |access-date=October 31, 2024}} It is endemic to Greece.

Description

Allium frigidum produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 25 mm long. Its scape is up to 30 cm tall, round in cross-section, erect, about 5 mm across. Its eaves are about the same length as the scape, 3 mm wide. Umbel has up to 45 flowers, the pedicels unequal in length. Flowers are bell-shaped, pale yellow tinged with pink. Anthers are yellow, ovary green.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18116219#page/267/mode/1up Pierre Edmond Boissier & Theodhoros Georgios Orphanides. 1882. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae 5: 259.]Sandro Bogdanovic´, Cristian Brullo, Salvatore Brullo, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Carmelo Maria Masarella, & Christina Salmeri. 2011. Allium achaium Boiss. (Alliadceae), a critical species of Greek flora. Candollea 66:57-64.

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