Allium obliquum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Allium obliquum

|parent = Allium subg. Polyprason

|authority = L.

|image = Allium obliquum1a.UME.JPG

|synonyms=*Allium exaltatum Kar. & Kir. ex Ledeb.

• Allium luteum F.Dietr.
• Allium porrum Georgi 1779, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
• Allium ramosum Jacq. 1781, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
• Camarilla obliqua (L.) Salisb.
• Cepa obliqua (L.) Moench
• Geboscon obliquum (L.) Raf.
• Moenchia obliqua (L.) Medik.

|synonyms_ref=[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=296125 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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Allium obliquum, common name lop-sided onion or twisted-leaf onion, is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a range extending from Romania to Mongolia. It is also widely cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.[http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go Dave's Garden]/125536/]Brezhnev, D.D., Korovina, O.N. 1981. Wild relatives of cultivated plants in the flora of the USSR. Leningrad: Kolos, pp.96-97 (in Russian). Vvedensky, A.I. 1935. Onion - Allium L. (Flora of the USSR, vol. IV.) Leningrad: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, p.175Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.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.Lazkov, G.A. & Turdumatov, N.K. (2010). New and rare species of the genus Allium (Alliaceae) for the flora of Kyrgyzstan. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 95: 1637-1639.

Allium obliquum produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 3 cm long. Scape is up to 100 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, up to 20 mm across. Umbels are spherical, with many yellow flowers crowded together.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/358315 Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027508 Flora of China v 24 p 187 高葶韭 gao ting jiu Allium obliquum]