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Taxon

Allium cepa L.

Protologue Sp. Pl. 1: 300. 1753 [1 May 1753]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Allium cepa--PA. Longwood Garden. 25 Jun 03. 038.jpg

Allium cepa--PA. Longwood Garden. 25 Jun 03. 038.jpg

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Allium cepa--PA. Longwood Garden. 25 Jun 03. 036.jpg

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Allium cepa--PA. Longwood Garden. 25 Jun 03. 037.jpg

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Allium cepa--PA. Longwood Garden. 25 Jun 03. 040.jpg

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Allium cepa--PA. Longwood Garden. 25 Jun 03. 039.jpg

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Endemic to Turkmenistan; introduced into 82 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

No collection number

June 25, 2003

Location

United States, Pennsylvania (Longwood Gardens)

Location Remarks

1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square , PA 19348. (See website for detailed directions)

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Amaryllidaceae

Genus

Allium

Specific Epithet

cepa

Authorship

L.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 3.0

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.5

Global rank

#94,266 of 335,497

Top 29%

Extinction probability

17%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →