Allium hookeri

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|taxon = Allium hookeri

|parent = Allium subg. Amerallium

|authority = Thwaites

|synonyms=Allium tsoongii F.T.Wang & Tang

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Allium hookeri is a plant species native to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Bhutan, and southwestern China (Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan). Common names include Hooker chives and garlic chives.

Allium hookeri produces thick, fleshy roots and a cluster of thin bulbs. Scapes are up top 60 cm tall. Leaves are flat and narrow, about the same length as the scapes but only 1 cm across. Umbels are crowded with many white or greenish-yellow flowers.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027488 Flora of China v 24 p 174 宽叶韭 kuan ye jiu Allium hookeri][http://www.botanicus.org/page/528268 Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1864. Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae, an enumeration of Ceylon plants, p 339.]F.T.Wang & Tang. 1937. Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology; Botany. Peiping 7: 292. 1937Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. Thimphu.