Allium songpanicum J. M. Xu

Bulb solitary or clustered, ovoid to narrowly so, 0.5--1.5 cm in diam.; tunic dirty brown, papery, apex fibrous. Leaves narrowly linear, slightly longer than scape, 1.5--3 mm wide. Scape 12--20 cm, slender, terete, finely angled, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 2-valved, persistent. Umbel few flowered. Pedicels unequal, 3--5 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth purple-red; segments subequal; outer ones ovate-oblong, 4--4.5 × 1.9--2.5 mm; inner ones ovate to broadly so, 4--4.5 × 2.3--2.9 mm. Filaments equal, ca. 2 × as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones broadened at base, 1-toothed on each side, teeth 2.2--2.5 mm, irregularly denticulate at apex. Ovary obovoid, with concave nectaries covered by hoodlike projections at base. Style exserted. Fl. and fr. Oct--Nov.

N Sichuan (Nanping Xian, Songpan Xian).

* Forest, scrub; 1600--1700 m.

Allium songpanicum is a plant species endemic to Sichuan Province in southern China. It grows in forests and brushlands at an elevation of approximately 1600–1700 m.

Allium songpanicum has bulbs up to 15 mm across. Scape is up to 20 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are long and very narrow, about the same length as the scape but only about 3 mm across, often drooping under its own weight. Umbel has only a few reddish-purple flowers.