Allium species - ID suggestions?

Mark McDonough antennaria@charter.net
Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:15:20 PDT
Tom Mitchell <tom@evolution-plants.com> wrote:

> I've added a couple of images to the Wiki of an Allium species that I 
> collected a few years ago in Istria, northern Croatia. >It is 
> flowering now in cultivation in the UK. It's an easy, very floriferous 
> species, growing to about 20cm in height and >spreads slowly. I should 
> have a ton of seed later in the year if anyone is interested and will 
> send some to Dell for the BX >anyway. Any suggestions as to the 
> species?
>
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Tom, your lovely allium is A. incensiodorum, a species endemic to 
Croatia described in 1989 by Jure Radić.

There were a number of studies on the closely related group of 
rhizomatous Allium in Europe and Asia over the last 20 years, the most 
important being: "Taxonomy, chorology and evolution of Allium 
lusitanicum - the European "A. senescens", by Nikolai Friesen & N. 
Herrmann, 1998.  Basically, this publication demarks the difference 
between what is regarded as true A. senescens (a species purely of 
Asia), and the European counterparts (previously A. senescens ssp. 
montanum, moved to a reinstated older name of A. lusitanicum), and 
further delimitation as other species.

Some links:
Allium incensiodorum published by Jure Radić in 1989, endemic to 
Croatia, fine photo... watch the URL, it may word-wrap.
 
http://biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/bogos/Projekte/…

"Taxonomy, chorology and evolution of Allium lusitanicum - the European 
"A. senescens", by Nikolai Friesen & N. Herrmann, 1998. I have an 
original color copy of this document, sorry that this link is to a very 
poor quality scanned black & white version:
 
http://biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/bogos/…

A number of alliums pictured here, I used Google Translate to translate 
Danish to English.  This is a long URL that'll wrap, copy and paste the 
whole thing into your browser:
 
http://translate.google.com/translate/…

And YES Please, I would dearly love to try some seed of this plant from 
known provenance, I'll write to you privately about it.


Regards,

Mark McDonough
The Onion man ;-)
in Massachusetts, near the New Hampshire border,
USDA Zone 5
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