Allium haemanthoides

Allium haemanthoides (Kurdish: Loosha) is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.^[2] It is native to Iraq and Iran. It is a bulb-forming perennial with a densely packed umbel of white flowers with dark mideveins on the tepals.^[3][4]

Allium haemanthoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Subgenus:	Allium subg. Melanocrommyum
Species:	A. haemanthoides
Binomial name
Allium haemanthoides Boiss. & Reut. ex Regel
Synonyms[1]
Allium akaka subsp. haemanthoides (Boiss. & Reut. ex Regel) Wendelbo

References

1. Tropicos Allium haemanthoides
2. "Allium haemanthoides Boiss. & Reut. ex Regel". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
3. Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 240. Allium haemanthoides
4. Wendelbo, Per Erland Berg. 1973. Kew Bulletin 28: 29, Allium akaka subsp. haemanthoides