''Allium agrigentinum'' is a plant species in the

Amaryllis family The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus ''Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryllis fami ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the Italian Island of

Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographi ...

in the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ...

.Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio d'Agrigento, ''Allium agrigentinum'' Brullo & Pavone
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Riserva naturale integrale Macalube di Aragona Wildlife Sanctuary
Salvatore Brullo & Pietro Pavone. 2002. Informatore Botanico Italiano; Bolletino della Societa Botanica Italiana. Florence 33: 505, ''Allium agrigentinum'' ''Allium agrigentinum'' has a light brown bulb up to 20 mm long. Scape is up to 40 cm tall. The umbel is hemispherical with uneven

pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''. Description Pedicel refers to a structure connecting a single flower to its inflorescence. In the absenc ...

. Flowers are narrowly bell-shaped with pinkish-purple

tepals A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of very ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3612585 agrigentinum Onions Endemic flora of Sicily Plants described in 2002