Allium eduardii

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|name = 贺兰韭 he lan jiu

|taxon = Allium eduardii

|parent = Allium subg. Rhizirideum

|authority =Stearn ex Airy Shaw

|synonyms=*Allium fischeri Regel 1875, illegitimate homonym not Besser 1830

• Allium eduardi alternate spelling

|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-295478 The Plant List][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295478 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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Allium eduardii is a plant species native to Russia, Mongolia, and northern China (Hebei, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), Ningxia and Xinjiang).[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027473 Flora of China v24 p 182. 贺兰韭 he lan jiu Allium eduardii ]Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K.Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.

Allium eduardii has narrowly egg-shaped bulbs up to 10 mm across. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are narrow and tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is hemispheric with purple flowers.[http://www.tropicos.org/Image/17451 line drawing of Allium eduardii, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 5-8 ]Airy Shaw, Herbert Kenneth. 1946. Herbertia 11: 102.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/1311728 Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 161.] in LatinCzerepanov, S. K. 1981. Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 509 pages. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otd-nie, Leningrad.