Allium beesianum W. W. Sm.

Bulbs clustered, cylindric, 0.5--1 cm in diam.; tunic brown, fibrous, subreticulate at base, sometimes laciniate. Leaves linear, shorter than scape, 3--8 mm wide. Scape (20--)30--50 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1-valved, deciduous. Umbel hemispheric, laxly few flowered. Pedicels subequal, shorter than to equaling perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth blue; outer segments narrowly ovate-oblong, 11--14(--17) × 3--5.5 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse; inner ones slightly longer and narrower than outer. Filaments subequal, usually ca. 4/5 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments for ca. 1 mm; outer ones subulate; inner ones broadened at base, sometimes 1-toothed on each side. Ovary obovoid-globose, with concave nectaries at base. Style 2--3 × as long as ovary; stigma punctiform. Fl. and fr. Aug--Oct.

SW Sichuan (Yanbian Xian), NW Yunnan (Heqing Xian, Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian).

* Slopes, meadows; 3000--4200 m.

Allium beesianum is a plant species native to southern China, provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan. It grows on slopes and in meadows at elevations of 3000–4200 m.

Allium beesianum produces cylindrical bulbs up to 10 mm in diameter. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 60 cm tall. Umbels appear hemispheric from a distance. Flowers are blue.