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A Taxonomical Revision of Genus Allium L. (Amaryllidaceae) in the Flora of Middle Asia

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The genus Allium is a complicated polymorphous group of vascular plants with more than 1000 species. Overall, 262 species are widely growing in Middle Asia. Four new combination and four lectotypes have been newly made and chosen in this conspectus.

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  1. Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Furkat O. Khassanov

  2. Institute of Botany, Kunming, China

    Ziyoviddin Yussupov

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  1. Department of Botany and Center for Environmental Studies, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye

    Münir Öztürk

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Shujaul Mulk Khan

  3. Biology Department, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya-Hatay, Türkiye

    Volkan Altay

  4. Department of Geography, Balıkesir University, Istanbul, Türkiye

    Recep Efe

  5. Faculty of Biology, National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Dilfuza Egamberdieva

  6. Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Furkat O. Khassanov

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Khassanov, F.O., Yussupov, Z. (2022). A Taxonomical Revision of Genus Allium L. (Amaryllidaceae) in the Flora of Middle Asia. In: Öztürk, M., Khan, S.M., Altay, V., Efe, R., Egamberdieva, D., Khassanov, F.O. (eds) Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability in Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73943-0_22

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