Allium Vavilovii
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''Allium vavilovii'' is a species of wild onion in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to southern Turkmenistan and northeastern
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
. Out of the approximately 1000 species of ''Allium'' it and '' Allium asarense'' are the closest known relatives of the common onion '' Allium cepa''.


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vavilovii Flora of Turkmenistan Flora of Iran Plants described in 1932 {{Allium-stub