Allium grisellum J. M. Xu

Bulbs clustered, narrowly ovoid, 0.7--1 cm in diam.; tunic black-gray, papery, apex fibrous. Leaves subequaling scape, 1--1.5 mm wide, adaxially channeled. Scape 11--20 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1-valved, persistent. Umbel few flowered. Pedicels equal, slightly longer than perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth white, slightly tinged with red; segments with purple midvein, oblong, 5.5--6 × ca. 2 mm, apex with a short, slightly reflexed point. Filaments equal, 2/3--3/4 as long as perianth segments, connate and adnate to perianth segments for ca. 1 mm, base broadly triangular, free part subulate; inner ones 1/2 as wide as outer. Ovary ovoid, without concave nectaries at base, apex slightly constricted. Style not exserted. Fl. Jun.

C Xinjiang (Toksun Xian).

* Meadows; ca. 300 m.

Allium grisellum is a plant species endemic to Xinjiang. It is known from one location in a meadow near Toksun Xian, southeast of Urumqi, at an elevation of about 300 m.

Allium grisellum forms clumps of egg-shaped bulbs about 10 mm across. Scapes are up to 20 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves narrow, about as long as the scape but only 10–15 mm wide. Umbels have only a few flowers; tepals white with a purple midvein.