Allium funckiifolium Hand.-Mazz.

Bulb solitary, subcylindric; tunic grayish brown, reticulate. Leaf 1; petiole 8.5--15 cm; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate-elliptic, 16--22.8 × 7--15.7 cm, base cordate to deeply so, usually crisped, apex acute or acuminate. Scape 35--65 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 2-valved, persistent. Umbel globose. Pedicels subequal, 2--4 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth white; segments subequal, elliptic to narrowly so, 3--4.5 × 1.2--1.5 mm; outer ones boat-shaped. Filaments 1.5--2 × as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones narrowly triangular, wider, ca. 1 mm wide at base. Ovary constricted at base into a stipe ca. 1 mm; ovules 1 per locule. Fl. Jul. 2 n = 16*.

W Hubei, E Sichuan.

* Forests, shady and moist slopes, streamsides; 2200--2300 m.

Allium funckiifolium is a plant species from Hubei and Sichuan Provinces in China. It grows in moist locales at elevations of 2200–2300 m.

Allium funckiifolium is unusual in the genus in producing one large, egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaf up to 25 cm long and 16 cm across. Scape is up to 70 cm tall. Umbel is spherical with many white flowers.