Allium fetisowii Regel

One of us (Kamelin) believes that plants with basally entire inner filaments represent a new, as yet undescribed species; however, further study is required to ascertain their true status.

Bulb solitary, globose, 1--2.5 cm in diam.; tunic grayish black, papery, splitting at apex. Leaves broadly linear, much shorter than scape, 2--15 mm wide. Scape 30--70 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 2-valved, persistent. Umbel hemispheric to globose, densely many flowered. Pedicels subequal, 2--3 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth stellately spreading, recurved and twisted after anthesis, purple-red; segments linear to linear-lanceolate, (4--)5--7 × 1--1.2 mm, without strong midvein. Filaments equal, 3/4--4/5 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones with broadened part subsquare and with 1 or 2 teeth on each side, rarely triangular and entire. Ovary subglobose, minutely tuberculate, with cracklike nectaries at base; ovules 4--6 per locule. Fl. and fr. Apr--Jun. 2 n = 16.

Among shrubs in meadows, exposed places. W Xinjiang (Xinyuan Xian) [Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan].

Allium simile Regel; A. tschimganicum B. Fedtschenko.

Allium fetisowii is a plant species native to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in Central Asia.

Allium fetisowii produces a single round bulb up to 25 mm across. Scape is up to 70 tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are much shorter than the scape, but up to 15 mm wide. Flowers are reddish-purple.

Allium tschimganicum is native to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. Flora of China regards this name as synonymous with Allium fetisowii Regel. However, the Plant List accepts A. tschimganicum as a distinct species.