Allium jacquemontii explained

Allium jacquemontii is a plant species native to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Xizang (Tibet) and Xinjiang. It grows high in the mountains at elevations of 4000–.^{[1] [2]}

Allium jacquemontii forms solitary egg-shaped bulbs about across. Scapes are up to tall. Umbel forms a hemisphere of many densely packed red or purple flowers.^{[1] [3] [4]}

Taxonomy

The Latin specific epithet jacquemontii refers to the French botanist and geologist Victor Jacquemont (1844–1912).^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001030 Flora of China v 24 p 200, Allium jacquemontii
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=240001030 Flora of Pakistan, Allium jacquemontii
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42518345#page/409/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4: 399.
4. Wendelbo, Per Erland Berg. 1967. Nytt Magasin for Botanikk Oslo xiv. 104.
5. Allen J. Coombes