Allium saxatile

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image=Allium_globosum_(inflorescences).jpg

|image2=Allium globosum (habitat).jpg

|taxon = Allium saxatile

|parent = Allium subg. Polyprason

|authority =M. Bieb. 1798, conserved name not Pall. 1776 nor Hohen. ex Boiss. 1882 nor M.Bieb. 1808

|synonyms=

• Allium caucasicum M.Bieb.
• Allium caucason Turra ex Sacc.
• Allium globosum M.Bieb.
• Allium gmelinianum Miscz. ex Grossh.
• Allium moly Griseb. & Schur ex Regel, illegitimate
• Allium moschatum Sint. ex Regel, illegitimate
• Allium ochroleucum Rchb.
• Allium paniculatum Ker Gawl.
• Allium rupestre Fisch. ex Schrank
• Allium ruprechtii Boiss.
• Allium savranicum Besser
• Allium stevenii Willd. ex Ledeb.
• Allium tauricum Pall. ex G.Don
• Allium tenuifolium Schur

|synonyms_ref=[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=296507 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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Allium saxatile is a Eurasian species of onion native to European Russia, Belarus, Caucasus, and the Altai Krai region in Siberia. The species was formerly perceived as including additional populations from central and eastern Asia[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001055 Flora of China v 24 p 190, Allium saxatile]Czerepanov, S. K. 1981. Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 509 pages. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otd-nie, Leningrad.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11015885#page/752/mode/1up Nyman, Carl Frederik. 1882. Conspectus florae europaeae : seu Enumeratio methodica plantarum phanerogamarum Europae indigenarum, indicatio distributionis geographicae singularum etc. 741.] but recent studies have resulting in splitting of the old species into several distinct species.Seregin, Alexei P. 2012. Phytotaxa 42:9-18