Family | Alliaceae (also placed in Liliaceae) |
Scientific name | Allium virgunculae F. Maekawa & Kitamura |
Synonyms | Allium virgunculae F. Maekawa et Kitamura forma albiflorum S. Toyama |
Common name | (Japanese common name) ito-rakkyou (イトラッキョウ, 糸辣韮 [meaning: strings rakkyou (rakkyou = Allium chinense)]) |
(English common name) none | |
Distribution | (Japan) Kyushu (Nagasaki Prefecture) |
(Other nations) none | |
Habitat | Mountane rocks |
Chromosomal number | 2n=16 (2x) |
Description | Bulbs ca. 2-2.5cm long. Leaves 10-20cm long, non hair. Scapes ca. 8-20cm tall. Flowers pink or merely white (forma albiflorum), flowering in October to November. Perennial plants. |
Reference | Allium virgunculae F. Maek. & Kitam. |
Allium virgunculae F. Maek. & Kitam. | |
Evolution of 5S rDNA units and their chromosomal localization in Allium cepa and Allium schoenoprasum revealed by microdissection and FISH | |
Phylogeny of Allium L. subgenus Rhizirideum (G. Don ex Koch) Wendelbo according to dot blot hybridization with randomly amplified DNA probes | |
Interspecific hybridization of autumn-flowering Allium species with ornamental Alliums and the characteristics of the hybrid plants | |
A study of taxonomical relationships among species of Korean Allium sect. Sacculiferum (Alliaceae) and related species using inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers |
October 2009 at my home |
October 2009 at my home |
cv. Suzuhuri-Rakkyou |
November 2009 at a Nursery |