Allium humile is an Asian species of wild onion found at high elevations (4000–4500 m) in India (Jammu-Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh), Nepal, northern Pakistan, Tibet, and Yunnan.[2][3][4][5][6]

Small Alpine Onion
雪韭 xue jiu
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. humile
Binomial name
Allium humile
Synonyms[1]

Allium humile has narrow, cylindrical bulbs. Scape is up to 15 cm tall, slightly compressed. Leaves are flat, fleshy, linear, about 5 mm wide. Umbel is hemispheric, crowded with many flowers. Tepals are white with yellowish-green midveins.[3][7]

The species formerly included a variety Allium humile var. trifurcatum F.T.Wang & Tang which is since 1991 called Allium trifurcatum (F.T.Wang & Tang) J.M.Xu.[8]

References

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  1. ^ The Plant List
  2. ^ Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980-2005. Flora of Pakistan, University of Karachi, Karachi.
  3. ^ a b Flora of China v 24 p 180 雪韭 xue jiu Allium humile
  4. ^ Flora of Pakistan
  5. ^ Flowers of India, Small Alpine Onion, Allium humile
  6. ^ Shah, A.; Bharati, K. A.; Ahmad, J.; Sharma, M. P. (2015). "New ethnomedicinal claims from Gujjar and Bakerwals tribes of Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir, India". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 166: 119–128. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2015.01.056. PMID 25680841.
  7. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4: 443
  8. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families