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Scorodon
Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives. The generic name Allium is the Latin word for garlic, and the type species for the genus is Allium sativum which means "cultivated garlic".
19 branches of this group, most-observed first
Longstamen Onion
speciesAllium macrostemon
Allium moschatum
speciesAllium moschatum
Allium inaequale
speciesAllium inaequale
Allium arlgirdense
speciesAllium arlgirdense
Allium tchihatschewii
speciesAllium tchihatschewii
Allium calamarophilon
speciesAllium calamarophilon
Allium bornmuelleri
speciesAllium bornmuelleri
Allium sabzakense
speciesAllium sabzakense
Allium shahinii
speciesAllium shahinii
Allium bungei
speciesAllium bungei
Allium cithaeronis
speciesAllium cithaeronis
Allium pamiricum
speciesAllium pamiricum
Allium jaxarticum
speciesAllium jaxarticum
Allium scrobiculatum
speciesAllium scrobiculatum
Allium capitellatum
speciesAllium capitellatum
Allium kossoricum
speciesAllium kossoricum
Allium sieheanum
speciesAllium sieheanum
Allium koenigianum
speciesAllium koenigianum
Allium anacoleum
speciesAllium anacoleum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
History of Plants in Four Books
Valerius Cordus · 1561 · p.202
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.97
Iconography of the Mushrooms of Paulet
J.H. Léveillé; plates by Paulet · 1855 · p.410
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.85
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1080337.