Allium cepa
Dublin Core
Title
Allium cepa
Subject
Taxonomy
Phylum :Magnoliophyta
Class :Liliopsida
Order :Asparagales
Family :Amarylidaceae
Genus :Allium
Species :Allium cepa
Phylum :Magnoliophyta
Class :Liliopsida
Order :Asparagales
Family :Amarylidaceae
Genus :Allium
Species :Allium cepa
Synonyms
Allium cepa var aggregatum G.Don, Allium angolense Baker, Allium aobanum Araki, Allium ascalonicum auct., Allium cepaeum St.-Lag., Allium commune Noronha, Allium cumaria Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. [Invalid], Allium esculentum Salisb., Allium napus Pall. ex Kunth, Allium nigritanum A.Chev. [Invalid], Allium pauciflorum Willd. ex Ledeb., Allium salota Dostál, Ascalonicum sativum P.Renault, Cepa alba P.Renault, Cepa esculenta Gray, Cepa pallens P.Renault, Cepa rubra P.Renault, Cepa vulgaris Garsault [Invalid], Kepa esculenta Raf., Porrum cepa (L.) Rchb.
Common name
Bawang merah, bawang kecil, bawang besar, onion, common onion, shallot onion
Description
Characteristics
A biennial herb that is grown as an annual and up to 100 cm tall.
Morphology
Leaves
Semiterete form, solid at first but later becoming hollow and pale bluish-green. Margin is terete. It is often inflated and hollow in the middle or in the lower part.
Inflorescence
Up to 2000 flowers. The tepals are greenish-white to purplish. The stamens are sometimes slightly exceeding tepals and style shorter than stamens at anthesis.
Fruit
4-6 mm in diametre and containing up to 6 seeds. The size of seeds is about 3 mm x 2 mm.
Plant part used
Fruits and leaves
Traditional uses
- The bulb is used as an ingredient in various hearty warm dishes. They are used raw in cold salads, pickling, cooking and frying.
- Used in the treatment of flatulence, dysentery, and as a stimulant, diuretic and expectorant. Sweet and hot with some heating and diuretic properties
- The onion is used to control flatulence, phlegm, fever and cough.
- Seed is to increase vitality, onion seeds are crushed and ingested.
Medicinal uses
- The bulb cure diuretic
- An extract of the dried plant was found to have a potent and prolonged hypoclycemic effect on artificially induced diabetes.
List of country
South-East Asia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Thailand
Creator
Allium cepa (Linnaeus,1753)
Source
Publisher
Nur Athirah Roshaizi
Contributor
Nur Athirah Roshaizi
Language
English
Collection
Citation
Allium cepa (Linnaeus,1753), “Allium cepa,” BIDARA, accessed September 3, 2025, https://bidara.uthm.edu.my/items/show/386.