Allium jacquemontii

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|name = 高原薤 gao yuan xie

|taxon = Allium jacquemontii

|parent = Allium subg. Polyprason

|authority = Kunth

|synonyms=Allium miserabile Wendelbo

|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-295779 The Plant List]

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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 {{convert|4000|–|4500|m}}.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001030 Flora of China v 24 p 200, Allium jacquemontii][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=240001030 Flora of Pakistan, Allium jacquemontii]

Allium jacquemontii forms solitary egg-shaped bulbs about {{convert|10|mm}} across. Scapes are up to {{convert|40|cm}} tall. Umbel forms a hemisphere of many densely packed red or purple flowers.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42518345#page/409/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4: 399.]Wendelbo, Per Erland Berg. 1967. Nytt Magasin for Botanikk Oslo xiv. 104.