Allium prostratum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|name=Allium prostratum

|taxon = Allium prostratum

|parent = Allium subg. Rhizirideum

|authority = L.C.Trevir. 1822 not Maxim. 1859

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|title=Synonymy

|Allium cernuum Schult. & Schult.f. 1830, illegitimate name not Roth 1798

|Allium congestum G.Don

|Allium declinatum Rchb. 1841, illegitimate name not Willd. 1827

|Allium declinatum Willd. 1827

|Allium deflexum Fisch. ex Kunth 1843, illegitimate name not Willd. 1799

|Allium fischeri Besser ex Schult. & Schult.f. 1830 not Regel 1875

|Allium satoanum Kitag.

|Allium stellerianum var. prostratum (Trevir.) Regel

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|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296325 The Plant List]

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Allium prostratum is an Asian species of wild onion native to Siberia (Zabaykalsky Krai, Buryatia, Yakutia), Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang. It grows in sunlit locations on steppes and rocky slopes.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027522 Flora of China v 24 p 186, Allium prostratum]

Allium prostratum spreads by means of a robust horizontal rhizome. It produces 1 or 2 bulbs up to 10 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 25 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is hemispheric, with purple flowers.[http://www.tropicos.org/Image/48035 line drawing of Allium prostratum, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 197, 1-3 ]Treviranus, Ludolf Christian. 1822. Alii species quotquot in horto botanico Wratislaviensis coluntur recensuit, rariores observationibus illustravit 16.Kitagawa, Masao. 1934. Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 48(566): 92.