Allium tuncelianum

Tunceli garlic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Species:	A. tuncelianum
Binomial name
	Allium tuncelianum; (Kollmann) Özhatay, B.Mathew & Şiraneci [1]
Synonyms
	A. macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum Kollmann; (basionym) [1][2]

Allium tuncelianum is a species of wild onion which is endemic to the Munzur Valley in Tunceli, in eastern Turkey. It has a garlic odor and taste and is used locally like garlic.^[3] Its common names include Tunceli garlic and Ovacik garlic.^[3] Botanists have suggested this species may be a close relative of garlic, and perhaps an ancestor of garlic, but genetic analysis shows that it is actually more closely related to leek.^[3] The plant is collected from the wild for use in cooking, a phenomenon that threatens the plant with extinction.^[3]

Wild range of A. tuncelianum

References

1 2 Under the treatment of the name as Allium tuncelianum, this species was published in Kew Bulletin 50(4): 723 (1995) "Plant Name Details for Allium tuncelianum". IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010. basionym: A. macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum Kollmann
↑ This species was originally described and published, as Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum, in Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 41(2): 262. 1983. Edinburgh and Glasgow "Plant Name Details for Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum". IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
1 2 3 4 Ipek, M., et al. (2008). Genetic characterization of Allium tuncelianum: An endemic edible Allium species with garlic odor. Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Scientia horticulturae 115:409-15.

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[ipni1-1] 1 2 Under the treatment of the name as Allium tuncelianum, this species was published in Kew Bulletin 50(4): 723 (1995) "Plant Name Details for Allium tuncelianum". IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010. basionym: A. macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum Kollmann

[ipni2-2] This species was originally described and published, as Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum, in Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 41(2): 262. 1983. Edinburgh and Glasgow "Plant Name Details for Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum". IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010.

[ipek-3] 1 2 3 4 Ipek, M., et al. (2008). Genetic characterization of Allium tuncelianum: An endemic edible Allium species with garlic odor. Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Scientia horticulturae 115:409-15.