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Allium Subg. Cepa
Cepa
Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives. The generic name Allium is the Latin word for garlic, and the type species for the genus is Allium sativum which means "cultivated garlic".
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.87
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.696
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.89
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.105
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.105
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.464
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.462
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.635
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.412
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.580
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.726
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.724
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Cepa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 899551.