Allium haemanthoides

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

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| taxon = Allium haemanthoides

| parent = Allium subg. Melanocrommyum

| image = Allium haemanthoides or Loosha 3.jpg

| authority = Boiss. & Reut. ex Regel

| synonyms = Allium akaka subsp. haemanthoides (Boiss. & Reut. ex Regel) Wendelbo

| synonyms_ref = [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100144115 Tropicos Allium haemanthoides]

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Allium haemanthoides (Kurdish: Loosha) is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.{{cite web|url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:528136-1|title= Allium haemanthoides Boiss. & Reut. ex Regel|author=|date=n.d.|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date= September 22, 2020}} It is native to Iraq and Iran. It is a bulb-forming perennial with a densely packed umbel of white flowers with dark mideveins on the tepals.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/1311807 Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 240. Allium haemanthoides ]Wendelbo, Per Erland Berg. 1973. Kew Bulletin 28: 29, Allium akaka subsp. haemanthoides

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