Allium schoenoprasoides explained

Allium schoenoprasoides is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.^[1] It can be found at elevations of 2700–3000 m.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Allium schoenoprasoides produces one egg-shaped bulb up to 15 mm in diameter. Scape is short, rarely more than 20 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape, 2–3 mm wide. Umbels are spherical, densely packed with many purple flowers crowded together.^{[2] [5] [6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=296524 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027527 Flora of China v 24 p 199, 类北薤 lei bei xie Allium schoenoprasoides
3. Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 2: 1-454. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
4. Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
5. http://www.tropicos.org/Image/33477 line drawing of Allium schoenoprasoides, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 226, 4-6
6. http://www.botanicus.org/page/1248032 Regel, Eduard August von. 1878. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 5(2): 630.
7. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11015885#page/750/mode/1up Nyman, Carl Frederik. 1882. Conspectus florae europaeae : seu Enumeratio methodica plantarum phanerogamarum Europae indigenarum, indicatio distributionis geographicae singularum etc. 741.