Allium pendulinum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|name=Italian garlic

| taxon = Allium pendulinum

| parent = Allium subg. Amerallium

| image = Allium pendulinum.jpg

| authority =Ten.

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|synonyms=*Allium album Spreng. 1825, illegitimate homonym not Santi 1795 nor F. Delaroche 1810

• Allium triquetrum Sebast. & Mauri 1818, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 nor Lour. 1790 nor Schrad. ex Schult. & Schult f. 1830
• Allium triquetrum var. pendulinum (Ten.) Regel
• Allium triquetrum subsp. pendulinum (Ten.) K.Richt.
• Nectaroscordum pendulinum (Ten.) Galasso & Banfi

|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296253 The Plant List][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=296253 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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Allium pendulinum, called Italian garlic,{{BSBI 2007 |accessdate=2014-10-17 }} is a plant species known only from Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica and mainland Italy.[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+pendulinum Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio pendulo, Allium pendulinum]

Allium pendulinum is a perennial herb up to 25 cm tall but usually much shorter. It generally produces only leaves, both of which wither before flowering time. There is no spathe at flowering time. Umbel has only a few flowers, usually less than 10, all on long pedicels and very often drooping (nodding, hanging downward). Tepals are white, each with three thin prominent green veins; anthers cream; ovary at flowering time green.Tenore, Michele. 1811. Flora Napolitana 1: 22.Schönfelder: Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Stuttgart 2002, {{ISBN|3-440-09361-1}}