Allium eusperma Airy Shaw

Bulb solitary, ovoid-globose, 1--2 cm in diam.; tunic yellow-brown to grayish brown, usually tinged with red, membranous to papery, entire or fibrous at apex. Leaves 3/4 as long as to slightly longer than scape, (0.5--)1.5--3 mm wide, semiterete, fistulose, smooth. Scape 20--50 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths for ca. 1/2 its length. Spathe 2-valved, persistent. Umbel hemispheric to globose, densely many flowered. Pedicels subequal, 2--3 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate, rarely a few bracteolate. Perianth pink to pale purple-red; segments ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 4--5 × 1--1.5 mm. Filaments equal, 1.3--1.5 × as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; inner ones slightly longer than outer, base narrowly triangular, sometimes with 1 short tooth on each side. Ovary subglobose, with concave nectaries at base. Style exserted. Fl. and fr. Aug--Sep.

W Sichuan (Sêrxü Xian, Xiangcheng Xian), NW Yunnan (Dêqên Xian).

* Forest margins, slopes; 2000--2800 m.

Allium eusperma is a plant species native to the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan in southern China. It grows on slopes and along the edges of forests at elevations of 2000–3000 m.

Allium eusperma produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 2 cm across. Scape is up to 60 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are generally tubular, almost as long as the scapes. Flowers are pink to pale reddish-purple.