Altai onion , or Stone onion [2] , Sagono ( lat. Allium altaicum ) is a perennial herbaceous plant, a species of the genus Onion ( Allium ) of the Onion family ( Alliaceae ).
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It is listed in the Red Book of Russia (status 3 - a rare species) [3] .
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Distribution and Ecology
This species grows in the Altai Territory , Tuva and Buryatia , the Irkutsk Region and the Trans-Baikal Territory . Also found in eastern Kazakhstan , in Mongolia and China [4] .
It grows on rocky outcrops, rocks , in crevices, on substrates rich in calcium . It occurs sporadically, in populations it is not plentiful or grows sporadically.
Botanical Description
Altai onion is a perennial herbaceous bulbous plant. It is similar to a batun . Bulbs are oblong-ovate, with a diameter of 3-4 centimeters, membranes are reddish-brown and thin-skinned, sitting on an oblique rhizome . The stem is 25–80 cm high, powerful, arched, swollen in the middle, one-third of the height dressed in smooth sheaths of leaves.
Leaves , including two or four, shorter than the stem, fistulose, pointed at the apex.
The case is shortly pointed. The umbrella is spherical, multi-flowered, capitate. Perianth 6-8 mm long, yellowish, shiny, pointed. The stamen filaments are almost twice as long as the perianth, at the base between each other and with the perianth are fused, whole, almost equal, awl-shaped. The column is issued from the perianth.
The box is one and a half times shorter than the perianth.
It blooms in June - July (in the second year), bears fruit in July - August .
Pollinated by insects. Reproduction - seed and vegetative . Gives self-seeding.
Taxonomy
Species Altai Onion is a member of the genus Onion ( Allium ) of the Onion family ( Alliaceae ) of the order Asparagales .
| 24 more families (according to APG II System ) | more than 870 species | ||||||||||||
| Asparagus order | clan onion | ||||||||||||
| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | Onion family | view Altai onion | |||||||||||
| 44 more order flowering plants (according to APG II System ) | about 300 more births | ||||||||||||
| The Red Book of Russia rare view | |
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
- ↑ Onion // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882. ; Botva // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882.
- ↑ The Red Book of the Russian Federation database on the website of the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- ↑ According to the GRIN website (see plant card).
Literature
- Vvedensky A.I. Genus 267. Onion - Allium L. // Flora of the USSR : in 30 t / h. ed. V.L. Komarov . - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1935. - T. 4 / ed. volumes V. L. Komarov. - S. 195 .-- 760, XXX p. - 5175 copies.
Links
- Allium altaicum : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and illustrated atlas of species).
- Allium altaicum // Electronic catalog of vascular plants of Asian Russia