Allium rude

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|name = 野黄韭 ye huang jiu

|taxon = Allium rude

|parent = Allium subg. Polyprason

|authority = Xu, Jie Mei

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Allium rude is a Chinese species of wild onion native to Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Tibet, at elevations of 2700–5000 m.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027525 Flora of China v 24 p 189, 野黄韭 ye huang jiu Allium rude][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=296460 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

Allium rude produces one egg-shaped bulb up to 15 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 70 cm long, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, long and narrow, usually shorter than the scape, up to 10 mm across. Umbels are spherical with large numbers of yellow flowers crowded together.Xu, Jie Mei, in Wang, Fa Tsuan & Tang, T. 1980. Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 14: 286, plate 50, figure. 6.[http://www.tropicos.org/Image/57851 line drawing of Allium rude, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 212, 6]