Allium Tianschanicum
''Allium tianschanicum'' is a plant species native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. ''Allium tianschanicum'' has a cluster of bulbs each up to 20 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 25 cm long, round in cross-section. Leaves are channeled, up to 15 mm across, shorter than the scape. Umbel is densely packed with many yellow or white flowers.Ruprecht, Franz Josef. 1869. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Pétersbourg, Septième Série (Sér. 7) 14(4): 33. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4268614 tianschanicum Onions Flora of temperate Asia Plants described in 1869 ...
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Franz Josef Ruprecht
Franz Josef Ruprecht (1 November 1814 – 4 April 1870) was an Austrian-born physician and botanist active in the Russian Empire, where he was known as Frants Ivanovič Ruprekht (russian: link=no, Франц Ива́нович Ру́прехт). He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, and grew up in Prague, where he studied, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1836. After a short stint in medical practice in Prague, he was appointed curator of the herbarium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg in 1839, then assistant director of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden between 1851 and 1855, and professor of botany in 1855 at the University of Saint Petersburg.Darwin CorrespondenceFranz Josef Ruprecht/ref> He died in Saint Petersburg in 1870. He described many new plants collected in the Russian Far East, including Alaska, then under Russian rule; examples include ''Adiantum aleuticum'', ''Lonicera maackii'', and ''Phellodendron, Phellodendron amurense''. The genus ...
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