Allium sairamense Regel

Bulb solitary, subglobose, 1--1.5 cm in diam.; tunic whitish lilac to brownish violet, membranous, entire. Leaves 2, usually shorter than scape, 1--3 mm wide, semiterete, solid, margin minutely scabrous-denticulate. Scape (15--)25--40 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths for ca. 1/3 its length. Spathe 2-valved; beak very short. Umbel hemispheric to globose, many flowered. Pedicels shorter than or subequaling perianth, ebracteolate or a few bracteolate. Perianth pale purple to purple-red, lustrous; segments elliptic-lanceolate, 6--7 mm, apex acute. Filaments ca. 1/3 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones narrowly triangular; inner ones wider than outer, entire. Ovary applanate-globose, without concave nectaries. Style short, not exserted. Fl. Jun--Jul.

W Xinjiang (Tian Shan) [Kazakhstan (basin of Ili River)].

Slopes in Picea forests, meadows, subalpine to alpine slopes; 2400--3400 m.

Allium sairamense is a plant species native to Xinjiang and Kazakhstan. It grows in Abies forests at elevations of 2400–3400 m.

Allium sairamense produces one round bulb up to 15 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 40 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel has many purple flowers crowded together.