Allium lineare

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Allium lineare

|parent = Allium subg. Reticulatobulbosa

|authority = L. 1753 not Mill. 1768 nor Ten. 1811 nor Willd. ex Kunth 1843

|synonyms=*Allium christii Janka

• Allium confertum Fisch.
• Allium deflexum Willd.
• Allium halleri Crantz
• Allium tortuosum Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
• Porrum lineare (L.) Raf.

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Allium lineare is a Eurasian species of wild onions with a wide range extending from France to Mongolia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027498|title=Allium lineare in Flora of China @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|accessdate=4 September 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+lineare|title=Allium lineare [Aglio lineare] - Flora Italiana|website=luirig.altervista.org|accessdate=4 September 2019}}[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295903 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K.Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.

Allium lineare has one or two bulbs each up to 15 cm across. Scape is up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, very narrow, rarely more than 5 mm across. Flowers red.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/358314 Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 295.] in Latin{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Image/47667|title=Tropicos | Image -|website=www.tropicos.org|accessdate=4 September 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=100213870|title=Image|website=www.tropicos.org|accessdate=4 September 2019}}

;formerly included

• Allium lineare var. maackii Maxim., now called Allium maackii (Maxim.) Prokh. ex Kom.
• Allium lineare var. strictum (Schrad.) Trevir., now called Allium strictum Schrad.