Allium curtum is species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula, Syria and Turkey. It is a bulb-forming perennial producing a tight, head-like umbel of green or purple flowers.Pierre Edmond Boissier & Charles Gaillardot. 1859. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae ser. 2, 4: 116.Feinbrun, Naomi. 1943. Polish Botanical Journal 4: 14.Duyfjes-de Wilde, Brigitta Emma Elisabeth. 1976. Mededelingen Landbouwhogeschool 76(11): 52.Täckholm, Vivi & Drar, Mohammed. 1954. Flora of Egypt 3: 69., Allium curtum subsp. aegyptiacumSeregin, Alexey Petrovich. 2004. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii. Moscow & Leningrad 36: 101, Allium aegyptiacum
Subspecies accepted Allium curtum subsp. curtum - Egypt incl Sinai, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus Allium curtum subsp. palaestinum Feinbrun - Rafah region in northeastern Sinai
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