Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Allium

Index Allium

Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives. [1]

139 relations: Allieae, Allioideae, Allium ampeloprasum, Allium caeruleum, Allium canadense, Allium cristophii, Allium cyathophorum, Allium dregeanum, Allium fistulosum, Allium flavum, Allium giganteum, Allium hollandicum, Allium lineare, Allium monanthum, Allium moschatum, Allium neriniflorum, Allium nigrum, Allium oreophilum, Allium paradoxum, Allium ramosum, Allium senescens, Allium siculum, Allium spathaceum, Allium tricoccum, Allium triquetrum, Allium ursinum, Allium victorialis, Amaryllidaceae, American Journal of Botany, Anthony Huxley, APG III system, Award of Garden Merit, Boreal ecosystem, Bulb, Cabbage moth, Carl Linnaeus, Cell nucleus, Center of origin, Central Asia, Chives, Circumscription (taxonomy), Clade, Common swift (moth), Convergent evolution, Crop, Cysteine, Delia antiqua, Family (biology), Flower, Flowering plant, ..., Garden dart, Garlic, Gene, Genus, Georges Rouy, Gilliesieae, Gynoecium, Herb, Herbaceous border, Herbaceous plant, Holarctic, Horticulture, Hybrid (biology), Internal transcribed spacer, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Large yellow underwing, Larva, Leek, Leek moth, Lepidoptera, Liliaceae, Lineage (evolution), List of systems of plant taxonomy, Locule, Mediterranean Basin, Molecular phylogenetics, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Monocotyledon, Monophyly, Monotypic taxon, Northern Hemisphere, Nutmeg (moth), Onion, Ornamental plant, Ovary (botany), Pakistan, Paraphyly, Perennial plant, Philip Barker-Webb, Phylogenetics, Phytotaxa, Pickling, Plant Systematics and Evolution, Plant taxonomy, Pollen, Resampling (statistics), Rhizome, Ribosomal DNA, Ribosome, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Sabin Berthelot, Sample (material), Scallion, Scape (botany), Schinia, Section (botany), Seed, Setaceous Hebrew character, Shallot, Sister group, Spacer DNA, Species, Species Plantarum, Stamen, Stolon, Storage organ, Subfamily, Subgenus, Subtropics, Sulfate, Systematic Botany, Systematics, Taxonomy (biology), Temperate climate, Tepal, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Toxicoscordion venenosum, Tree onion, Tribe (biology), Tuber, Tulbaghieae, Turnip moth, Type species, Umbel, Vegetable, Weed, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Expand index (89 more) »

Allieae

Allieae is a tribe of plants belonging to the subfamily Allioideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae).

New!!: Allium and Allieae · See more »

Allioideae

Allioideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales.

New!!: Allium and Allioideae · See more »

Allium ampeloprasum

Allium ampeloprasum is a member of the onion genus Allium.

New!!: Allium and Allium ampeloprasum · See more »

Allium caeruleum

Allium caeruleum (blue globe onion, blue ornamental onion, blue-of-the-heavens, blue-flowered garlic; syn. Allium azureum Ledeb.) is an ornamental bulbous plant of the onion genus, native to Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang).

New!!: Allium and Allium caeruleum · See more »

Allium canadense

Allium canadense, also known as Canada onion, Canadian garlic, wild garlic, meadow garlic and wild onion is a perennial plant native to eastern North America from Texas to Florida to New Brunswick to Montana.

New!!: Allium and Allium canadense · See more »

Allium cristophii

Allium cristophii, common name Persian onion or Star of Persia; is a species of onion native to Turkey, Iran, and Turkmenistan, though grown as an ornamental bulbous plant in many parts of the world.

New!!: Allium and Allium cristophii · See more »

Allium cyathophorum

Allium cyathophorum is a Chinese (杯花韭, bei hua jiu) species of the genus Allium (onions) in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae.

New!!: Allium and Allium cyathophorum · See more »

Allium dregeanum

Allium dregeanum is the sole known species of Allium endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.

New!!: Allium and Allium dregeanum · See more »

Allium fistulosum

Allium fistulosum, the Welsh onion, also commonly called bunching onion, long green onion, Japanese bunching onion, scallion, and spring onion, is a species of perennial plant.

New!!: Allium and Allium fistulosum · See more »

Allium flavum

Allium flavum, the small yellow onionEllen Spector Platt or yellow-flowered garlic, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium, which also includes the flowering and culinary onions and garlic.

New!!: Allium and Allium flavum · See more »

Allium giganteum

Allium giganteum, common name giant onion, is an Asian species of onion, native to central and southwestern Asia but cultivated in many countries as a flowering garden plant.

New!!: Allium and Allium giganteum · See more »

Allium hollandicum

Allium hollandicum, common names Persian onion or Dutch garlic is a species of flowering plant native to Iran and Kyrgyzstan but widely cultivated as an ornamental because of its large umbels of attractive purple flowers.

New!!: Allium and Allium hollandicum · See more »

Allium lineare

Allium lineare is a Eurasian species of wild onions with a wide range extending from France to Mongolia.

New!!: Allium and Allium lineare · See more »

Allium monanthum

Allium monanthum, the Korean wild chive, is a spring vegetable with minuscule bulbous roots that have a mild onion flavor and found in the woodlands of Korea, Japan, northeastern Russia (Primorye), and northeastern China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning).

New!!: Allium and Allium monanthum · See more »

Allium moschatum

Allium moschatum is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a range extending from Spain to Iran.

New!!: Allium and Allium moschatum · See more »

Allium neriniflorum

Allium neriniflorum is an Asian species of wild onion native to Mongolia, the Zabaykalsky Krai region of Siberia, and northern China (Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning).

New!!: Allium and Allium neriniflorum · See more »

Allium nigrum

Allium nigrum, common name black garlic, broad-leaved leek, or broadleaf garlic, is a Middle Eastern species of wild onion.

New!!: Allium and Allium nigrum · See more »

Allium oreophilum

Allium oreophilum, common name pink lily leek, is a plant species native to Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkmenistan, European Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia Allium oreophilum produces one spherical bulb up to in diameter.

New!!: Allium and Allium oreophilum · See more »

Allium paradoxum

Allium paradoxum, the few-flowered garlic or few-flowered leek, is an Asian species of wild onion in the Amaryllis family.

New!!: Allium and Allium paradoxum · See more »

Allium ramosum

Allium ramosum, called Fragrant-flowered Garlic or Chinese chives is a northern Asian species of wild onion native to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, and northern China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang).

New!!: Allium and Allium ramosum · See more »

Allium senescens

Allium senescens, commonly called aging chive, German garlic, or broadleaf chives, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium (which includes all the ornamental and culinary onions and garlic).

New!!: Allium and Allium senescens · See more »

Allium siculum

Allium siculum, known as honey garlic, Sicilian honey lily, Sicilian honey garlic, or Mediterranean bells, is a European and Turkish species of plants genus Allium.

New!!: Allium and Allium siculum · See more »

Allium spathaceum

Allium spathaceum, the Ethiopian onion, is a plant species native to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan.

New!!: Allium and Allium spathaceum · See more »

Allium tricoccum

Allium tricoccum (commonly known as ramp, ramps, spring onion, ramson, wild leek, wood leek, and wild garlic) is a North American species of wild onion widespread across eastern Canada and the eastern United States.

New!!: Allium and Allium tricoccum · See more »

Allium triquetrum

Allium triquetrum is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium (onions and garlic) native to the Mediterranean basin.

New!!: Allium and Allium triquetrum · See more »

Allium ursinum

Allium ursinum – known as ramsons, buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, or bear's garlic – is a wild relative of chives native to Europe and Asia.

New!!: Allium and Allium ursinum · See more »

Allium victorialis

Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine broad-leaf allium is a broad-leaved Eurasian species of wild onion.

New!!: Allium and Allium victorialis · See more »

Amaryllidaceae

The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales.

New!!: Allium and Amaryllidaceae · See more »

American Journal of Botany

The American Journal of Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers all aspects of plant biology.

New!!: Allium and American Journal of Botany · See more »

Anthony Huxley

Anthony Julian Huxley (born 2 December 1920; died 26 December 1992 in Surbiton, Surrey) was a British botanist.

New!!: Allium and Anthony Huxley · See more »

APG III system

The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).

New!!: Allium and APG III system · See more »

Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

New!!: Allium and Award of Garden Merit · See more »

Boreal ecosystem

A boreal ecosystem is an ecosystem with a subarctic climate in the Northern Hemisphere, roughly between latitude 50° to 70°N.

New!!: Allium and Boreal ecosystem · See more »

Bulb

In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy.

New!!: Allium and Bulb · See more »

Cabbage moth

Note: the small white species of butterfly is commonly called a "cabbage moth" in North America. Mamestra brassicae, or the cabbage moth, is primarily known as a pest that is responsible for severe crop damage of a wide variety of plants species.

New!!: Allium and Cabbage moth · See more »

Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

New!!: Allium and Carl Linnaeus · See more »

Cell nucleus

In cell biology, the nucleus (pl. nuclei; from Latin nucleus or nuculeus, meaning kernel or seed) is a membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells.

New!!: Allium and Cell nucleus · See more »

Center of origin

A center of origin (or centre of diversity) is a geographical area where a group of organisms, either domesticated or wild, first developed its distinctive properties.

New!!: Allium and Center of origin · See more »

Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

New!!: Allium and Central Asia · See more »

Chives

Chives, scientific name Allium schoenoprasum, is an edible species of the genus Allium.

New!!: Allium and Chives · See more »

Circumscription (taxonomy)

In biological taxonomy, circumscription is the definition of a taxon, that is, a group of organisms.

New!!: Allium and Circumscription (taxonomy) · See more »

Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

New!!: Allium and Clade · See more »

Common swift (moth)

The common swift (Korscheltellus lupulina) is a moth of the family Hepialidae.

New!!: Allium and Common swift (moth) · See more »

Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.

New!!: Allium and Convergent evolution · See more »

Crop

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.

New!!: Allium and Crop · See more »

Cysteine

Cysteine (symbol Cys or C) is a semi-essential proteinogenic amino acid with the formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH2SH.

New!!: Allium and Cysteine · See more »

Delia antiqua

Delia antiqua, commonly known as the onion fly, is a cosmopolitan pest of crops.

New!!: Allium and Delia antiqua · See more »

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

New!!: Allium and Family (biology) · See more »

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

New!!: Allium and Flower · See more »

Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

New!!: Allium and Flowering plant · See more »

Garden dart

The garden dart (Euxoa nigricans) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

New!!: Allium and Garden dart · See more »

Garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species in the onion genus, Allium.

New!!: Allium and Garlic · See more »

Gene

In biology, a gene is a sequence of DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function.

New!!: Allium and Gene · See more »

Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

New!!: Allium and Genus · See more »

Georges Rouy

Georges Rouy (2 December 1851, Paris – 25 December 1924, Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French botanist who was among the first to identify infraspecific (i.e., below the level of species) taxa, including: subspecies, varieties, and forms.

New!!: Allium and Georges Rouy · See more »

Gilliesieae

Gilliesieae is a tribe of herbaceous geophyte plants belonging to the subfamily Allioideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae).

New!!: Allium and Gilliesieae · See more »

Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

New!!: Allium and Gynoecium · See more »

Herb

In general use, herbs are plants with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, in medicine, or as fragrances.

New!!: Allium and Herb · See more »

Herbaceous border

A herbaceous border is a collection of perennial herbaceous plants (plants that live for more than two years and are soft-stemmed and non-woody) arranged closely together, usually to create a dramatic effect through colour, shape or large scale.

New!!: Allium and Herbaceous border · See more »

Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.

New!!: Allium and Herbaceous plant · See more »

Holarctic

The Holarctic is the name for the biogeographic realm that encompasses the majority of habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world, combining Wallace's Palearctic zoogeographical region, consisting of North Africa and all of Eurasia (with the exception of the southern Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent), and the Nearctic zoogeographical region, consisting of North America, north of Mexico.

New!!: Allium and Holarctic · See more »

Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

New!!: Allium and Horticulture · See more »

Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid, or crossbreed, is the result of combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

New!!: Allium and Hybrid (biology) · See more »

Internal transcribed spacer

Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) refers to the spacer DNA situated between the small-subunit ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and large-subunit rRNA genes in the chromosome or the corresponding transcribed region in the polycistronic rRNA precursor transcript.

New!!: Allium and Internal transcribed spacer · See more »

International Association for Plant Taxonomy

The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitates international communication of research between botanists, and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names.

New!!: Allium and International Association for Plant Taxonomy · See more »

Large yellow underwing

The large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) is a moth, the type species for the family Noctuidae.

New!!: Allium and Large yellow underwing · See more »

Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

New!!: Allium and Larva · See more »

Leek

The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek.

New!!: Allium and Leek · See more »

Leek moth

The leek moth or onion leaf miner (Acrolepiopsis assectella) is a species of moth of family Acrolepiidae and the genus Acrolepiopsis.

New!!: Allium and Leek moth · See more »

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).

New!!: Allium and Lepidoptera · See more »

Liliaceae

The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of fifteen genera and about 705 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016) of flowering plants within the order Liliales.

New!!: Allium and Liliaceae · See more »

Lineage (evolution)

An evolutionary lineage is a temporal series of organisms, populations, cells, or genes connected by a continuous line of descent from ancestor to descendent.

New!!: Allium and Lineage (evolution) · See more »

List of systems of plant taxonomy

This list of systems of plant taxonomy presents "taxonomic systems" used in plant classification.

New!!: Allium and List of systems of plant taxonomy · See more »

Locule

A locule (plural locules) or loculus (plural loculi) (meaning "little place" in Latin) is a small cavity or compartment within an organ or part of an organism (animal, plant, or fungus).

New!!: Allium and Locule · See more »

Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin (also known as the Mediterranean region or sometimes Mediterranea) is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.

New!!: Allium and Mediterranean Basin · See more »

Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

New!!: Allium and Molecular phylogenetics · See more »

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.

New!!: Allium and Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · See more »

Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants (angiosperms) whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

New!!: Allium and Monocotyledon · See more »

Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

New!!: Allium and Monophyly · See more »

Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

New!!: Allium and Monotypic taxon · See more »

Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

New!!: Allium and Northern Hemisphere · See more »

Nutmeg (moth)

The nutmeg (Anarta trifolii or Hadula trifolii), also known as the clover cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

New!!: Allium and Nutmeg (moth) · See more »

Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

New!!: Allium and Onion · See more »

Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

New!!: Allium and Ornamental plant · See more »

Ovary (botany)

In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium.

New!!: Allium and Ovary (botany) · See more »

Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

New!!: Allium and Pakistan · See more »

Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

New!!: Allium and Paraphyly · See more »

Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

New!!: Allium and Perennial plant · See more »

Philip Barker-Webb

Philip Barker-Webb FRS (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist.

New!!: Allium and Philip Barker-Webb · See more »

Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

New!!: Allium and Phylogenetics · See more »

Phytotaxa

Phytotaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for rapid publication on any aspect of systematic botany.

New!!: Allium and Phytotaxa · See more »

Pickling

Pickling is the process of preserving or expanding the lifespan of food by either anaerobic fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar.

New!!: Allium and Pickling · See more »

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Plant Systematics and Evolution is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering systematic botany and evolutionary biology.

New!!: Allium and Plant Systematics and Evolution · See more »

Plant taxonomy

Plant taxonomy is the science that finds, identifies, describes, classifies, and names plants.

New!!: Allium and Plant taxonomy · See more »

Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells).

New!!: Allium and Pollen · See more »

Resampling (statistics)

In statistics, resampling is any of a variety of methods for doing one of the following.

New!!: Allium and Resampling (statistics) · See more »

Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (from script "mass of roots", from rhizóō "cause to strike root") is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

New!!: Allium and Rhizome · See more »

Ribosomal DNA

Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is a DNA sequence that codes for ribosomal RNA.

New!!: Allium and Ribosomal DNA · See more »

Ribosome

The ribosome is a complex molecular machine, found within all living cells, that serves as the site of biological protein synthesis (translation).

New!!: Allium and Ribosome · See more »

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (brand name Kew) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

New!!: Allium and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · See more »

Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

New!!: Allium and Royal Horticultural Society · See more »

Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences".

New!!: Allium and Royal Society of Chemistry · See more »

Sabin Berthelot

Sabin Berthelot (4 April 1794 – 10 November 1880) was a French naturalist and ethnologist.

New!!: Allium and Sabin Berthelot · See more »

Sample (material)

In general, a sample is a limited quantity of something which is intended to be similar to and represent a larger amount of that thing(s).

New!!: Allium and Sample (material) · See more »

Scallion

Scallions (green onion, spring onion and salad onion) are vegetables of various Allium onion species.

New!!: Allium and Scallion · See more »

Scape (botany)

In botany, a scape is a long internode forming the basal part or the whole of a peduncle.

New!!: Allium and Scape (botany) · See more »

Schinia

Schinia, commonly called flower moths, is a large genus of moths belonging to the family Noctuidae.

New!!: Allium and Schinia · See more »

Section (botany)

In botany, a section (sectio) is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species.

New!!: Allium and Section (botany) · See more »

Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

New!!: Allium and Seed · See more »

Setaceous Hebrew character

The setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

New!!: Allium and Setaceous Hebrew character · See more »

Shallot

The shallot is a type of onion, specifically a botanical variety of the species Allium cepa.

New!!: Allium and Shallot · See more »

Sister group

A sister group or sister taxon is a phylogenetic term denoting the closest relatives of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

New!!: Allium and Sister group · See more »

Spacer DNA

Spacer DNA or intergenic spacer (IGS) is a region of non-coding DNA between genes.

New!!: Allium and Spacer DNA · See more »

Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

New!!: Allium and Species · See more »

Species Plantarum

Species Plantarum (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera.

New!!: Allium and Species Plantarum · See more »

Stamen

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

New!!: Allium and Stamen · See more »

Stolon

In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms.

New!!: Allium and Stolon · See more »

Storage organ

A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water.

New!!: Allium and Storage organ · See more »

Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

New!!: Allium and Subfamily · See more »

Subgenus

In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.

New!!: Allium and Subgenus · See more »

Subtropics

The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.

New!!: Allium and Subtropics · See more »

Sulfate

The sulfate or sulphate (see spelling differences) ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula.

New!!: Allium and Sulfate · See more »

Systematic Botany

Systematic Botany is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of systematic botany.

New!!: Allium and Systematic Botany · See more »

Systematics

Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time.

New!!: Allium and Systematics · See more »

Taxonomy (biology)

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

New!!: Allium and Taxonomy (biology) · See more »

Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

New!!: Allium and Temperate climate · See more »

Tepal

A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth) when these parts cannot easily be divided into two kinds, sepals and petals.

New!!: Allium and Tepal · See more »

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Theoretical and Applied Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media.

New!!: Allium and Theoretical and Applied Genetics · See more »

Toxicoscordion venenosum

Toxicoscordion venenosum, with the common names death camas and meadow death camas, is a species of flowering plants in the genus Toxicoscordion, of the Melanthiaceae family.

New!!: Allium and Toxicoscordion venenosum · See more »

Tree onion

Tree onion, topsetting onions, walking onions, or Egyptian onions, Allium × proliferum, are similar to common onions (''A. cepa''), but with a cluster of bulblets where a normal onion would have flowers.

New!!: Allium and Tree onion · See more »

Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.

New!!: Allium and Tribe (biology) · See more »

Tuber

Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients.

New!!: Allium and Tuber · See more »

Tulbaghieae

Tulbaghieae is a tribe of plants belonging to the subfamily Allioideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae).

New!!: Allium and Tulbaghieae · See more »

Turnip moth

The turnip moth (Agrotis segetum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

New!!: Allium and Turnip moth · See more »

Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).

New!!: Allium and Type species · See more »

Umbel

An umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels) which spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs.

New!!: Allium and Umbel · See more »

Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

New!!: Allium and Vegetable · See more »

Weed

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place".

New!!: Allium and Weed · See more »

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) is an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families." Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, it is available online, allowing searches for the names of families, genera and species, as well as the ability to create checklists.

New!!: Allium and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families · See more »

Redirects here:

Aglitheis, Alium, Alliums, Anguinum, Ascalonicum, Butomissa, Calliprena, Caloscordum, Cepa, Codonoprasum, Endotis, Geboscon, Getuonis, Gynodon, Hardy alliums, Hexonychia, Hylogeton, Kalabotis, Kromon, Loncostemon, Maligia, Milula, Molium, Molyza, Nectaroscordum, Ophioscorodon, Panstenum, Phyllodolon, Plexistena, Porrum, Praskoinon, Raphione, Rhizirideum, Schoenissa, Schoenoprasum, Scorodon, Stelmesus, Stemodoxis, Trigonea, Validallium.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »