Allium tubiflorum Rendle

Plants without onionlike or garliclike odor. Bulb solitary, ovoid-globose to subglobose, 1--2 cm in diam.; tunic grayish black, membranous, entire. Leaves equaling to longer than scape, 1--3 mm wide, terete to subterete, fistulose, scabrous-denticulate along angles. Scape 15--30(--40) cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1-valved, persistent. Umbel few flowered. Pedicels unequal, 0.8--4(--7) cm, bracteolate. Perianth stellately spreading, red to purple; segments ovate-oblong, 5--7(--8) × 1.5--2(--2.4) mm, connate at base into a ca. 2 mm tube, apex obtuse or acute; inner ones equaling or slightly longer than outer. Filaments subulate, ca. 1/2 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments for ca. 2 mm. Ovary conical, without concave nectaries at base; ovules (3 or)4(--6) per locule. Stigma 3-cleft. Fl. and fr. Jul--Oct. 2 n = 16*, 32*.

Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, NE Sichuan.

* Shrubby areas, slopes, rock crevices; near sea level to 2000 m.

Caloscordum tubiflorum (Rendle) Traub.

Allium tubiflorum is a plant species native to China (Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan) at elevations less than 2000 m.

Allium tubiflorum is one of the few species of Allium lacking the characteristic onion/garlic scent. It produces bulbs that are solitary, round to egg-shaped, up to 20 cm across. Scapes are up to 40 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, up to 3 mm across, about the same length as the scapes. Umbels have a few red or purple flowers.