Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Allium arenarium Sadler ex Rchb., nom. inval. |
| synonym | Allium controversum Schrad. ex Willd. |
| synonym | Allium longicuspis Regel |
| synonym | Allium ophioscorodon Link |
| synonym | Allium pekinense Prokh. |
| synonym | Allium sativum f. sagittatum Kazakova |
| synonym | Allium sativum subsp. asiae-mediae Kazakova |
| synonym | Allium sativum subsp. controversum (Schrad. ex Willd.) K.Richt. |
| synonym | Allium sativum subsp. subrotundum (Gren. & Godr.) K.Richt. |
| synonym | Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon (Link) Döll |
| synonym | Allium sativum var. pekinense (Prokh.) F.Maek. |
| synonym | Allium sativum var. vulgare Döll, nom. inval. |
| synonym | Allium scorodoprasum subsp. viviparum (Regel) K.Richt. |
| synonym | Porrum ophioscorodon (Link) Rchb. |
| synonym | Porrum sativum (L.) Rchb., nom. illeg. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
From Hooker, Vol 6 (1892):
leaves flat, scape slender, spathes long-beaked, heads bearing bulbils and flowers, sepals lanceolate acuminate, inner filaments 2-toothed.
Flora of China, efloras.org:
Bulb solitary, globose to applanate-globose, usually consisting of several bulbels covered with a common tunic; tunic white to purple, membranous, entire. Leaves broadly linear to linear-lanceolate, shorter than scape, to 2.5 cm wide, apex acuminate. Scape 25--50 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths for ca. 1/2 its length. Spathe deciduous; beak 7--20 cm. Umbel with many bulblets and few flowers. Pedicels slender, longer than perianth; bracteoles ovate, rather large, membranous, apex acute. Perianth usually pale red; outer segments ovate-lanceolate, ca. 4 × 1.4 mm; inner ones ovate, ca. 3 × 1.4 mm. Filaments shorter than perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones broadened at base, 1-toothed on each side, teeth with apex filiform and longer than perianth segments. Ovary globose. Style not exserted. Fl. Jul. 2 n = 16*, 48.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam
Indian Distribution
Assam
Global Distribution
Native: Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Introduced: Albania, Algeria, Amur, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Cambodia, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, East European Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Galápagos, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Illinois, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Leeward Is., Libya, Mexico Central, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Morocco, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Pakistan, Poland, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Romania, Sardegna, Seychelles, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tennessee, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia
Indian Distribution
All over India
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Homoeopathy
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Modern medicine
Traditional chinese medicine
Sowa-Rigpa
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Homoeopathy, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha, Modern medicine, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=114
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=114 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Edible
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=114
- Herb Information. The Himalaya Drug Company. http://www.himalayawellness.com/herbfinder/allium-sativum.htm (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- ENVIS Center on Medicinal Plants. http://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/0f745a825cbab9d43d19dadf008868b9/88736dafe5e97eb96b90359b6b0eda2a (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:528796-1 (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027526 (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Flowers of India. http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Garlic.html (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Hooker, J. D. 1892. Flora of British India. Vol. 6. Part XVIII. p225-448. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin06hookrich
- https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/nutrition-research/learning-center/plant-profiler/allium-sativum.html (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=114
- Herb Information. The Himalaya Drug Company. http://www.himalayawellness.com/herbfinder/allium-sativum.htm (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- ENVIS Center on Medicinal Plants. http://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/0f745a825cbab9d43d19dadf008868b9/88736dafe5e97eb96b90359b6b0eda2a (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:528796-1 (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027526 (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Flowers of India. http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Garlic.html (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
- Hooker, J. D. 1892. Flora of British India. Vol. 6. Part XVIII. p225-448. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin06hookrich
- https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/nutrition-research/learning-center/plant-profiler/allium-sativum.html (Accessed on 27 April 2018)
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Asparagales |
| Family | Amaryllidaceae |
| Genus | Allium |
| Species | Allium sativum L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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