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{{short description|Species of plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Allium sikkimense 146-8858.jpg
|name = Sikkim onion blue-flowered onion 高山韭 gao shan jiu
|genus = Allium | species = sikkimense
|authority = [[John Gilbert Baker|Baker]]
|synonyms=*''Allium cyaneum'' var. ''brachystemon'' Regel
*''Allium kansuense'' Regel
*''Allium tibeticum'' Rendle
|synonyms_ref=<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296606 The Plant List]</ref>
}}

'''''Allium sikkimense''''' is a plant species native to [[Sikkim]], [[Tibet]], [[Bhutan]], [[Nepal]], [[India]] and parts of [[China]] ([[Gansu]], [[Ningxia]], [[Qinghai]], [[Shaanxi]], [[Sichuan]], [[Xizang]], [[Yunnan]]). It grows in meadows and on the edges of forests at elevations of 2400–5000 m.<ref name="freetibet">[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027533 Flora of China v 24 p 178, ''Allium sikkimense'']</ref> The species is cultivated as an ornamental in other regions because of its strikingly beautiful blue flowers.<ref>[http://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/view_seed_item/2832?actionName=view_flowers&itemname=ALLIUM+SIKKIMENSE&page=8 Plant World Seeds, Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom]</ref><ref>[http://www.sequimrareplants.com/Allium%20sikkimense.html Sequim Rare Plants, Sequim, Washington State, USA]</ref><ref>[http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/125540/ Dave's Garden Plant Files]</ref> It is used medicinally in the Sikkim Eastern Himalayas. <ref name="O'Neill_al2017">{{cite journal |last1=O'Neill |first1=A. R.|last2=Badola |first2=H.K. |last3=Dhyani |first3=P. P. |last4=Rana |first4=S. K. |date=2017 |title=Integrating ethnobiological knowledge into biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas |journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=21 |doi=10.1186/s13002-017-0148-9 |pmid=28356115 |pmc=5372287}}</ref>

''Allium sikkimense'' has a cluster of narrow bulbs generally less than 5 mm in diameter. [[Scape (botany)|Scape]] is up to 40 cm tall. Leaves are flat, narrow, shorter than the scape, up to 5 mm wide. [[Umbel]] is a densely crowded hemisphere of blue flowers.<ref name="freetibet"/><ref>[http://www.botanicus.org/page/1897159 Baker, John Gilbert. 1874. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 12(142): 292–293.]</ref><ref>[http://www.botanicus.org/page/1309892 Regel, Eduard August von. 1887. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 10(2): 690, as ''Allium kansuense'']</ref><ref>[http://www.botanicus.org/page/1939429 Rendle, Alfred Barton. 1906. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 44(2): 41–42, as ''Allium tibeticum'']</ref>

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[[Category:Allium|sikkimense]]
[[Category:Onions]]
[[Category:Flora of China]]
[[Category:Flora of Sichuan]]
[[Category:Flora of Gansu]]
[[Category:Flora of Ningxia]]
[[Category:Flora of Qinghai]]
[[Category:Flora of Shaanxi]]
[[Category:Flora of Yunnan]]
[[Category:Flora of Tibet]]
[[Category:Flora of Sikkim]]
[[Category:Flora of Bhutan]]
[[Category:Flora of Nepal]]
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[[Category:Taxa named by John Gilbert Baker]]

Allium sikkimense - Revision history

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