Allium wallichii

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Allium wallichii GotBot 2015 004.jpg

|taxon = Allium wallichii

|parent = Allium subg. Amerallium

|authority = Kunth

|synonyms=*Allium bulleyanum Diels

• Allium bulleyanum var. tchongchanense (H.Lév.) Airy Shaw
• Allium caeruleum Wall.
• Allium feddei H.Lév.
• Allium liangshanense Z.Y.Zhu
• Allium polyastrum Diels
• Allium praelatitium H.Lév.
• Allium tchongchanense H.Lév.
• Allium violaceum Wall. ex Regel
• Allium wallichianum Steud.
• Allium wallichii var. albidum F.T. Wang & T. Tang
• Nothoscordum mairei H.Lév.

|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296961 The Plant List]

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Allium wallichii is a plant species native to India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Myanmar, and parts of China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, Tibet, Xizang, Yunnan). It grows at elevations of 2300–4800 m.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027548 Flora of China v 24 p 175]

Allium wallichii has elongate roots and clusters of narrow bulbs. Scapes are up to 110 cm tall, triangular in cross-section. Leaves are flat, up to 20 mm across, usually shorter than the scape. Flowers are white, pink, red, dark purple (sometimes almost black).[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42518389#page/453/mode/1up Karl Sigismund Kunth. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4: 443.]Zhu, Zheng Yin. 1991. Bulletin of Botanical Research. Harbin 11(1): 33., as Allium liangshanense