Allium sikkimense

Sikkim onion; blue-flowered onion; 高山韭 gao shan jiu
Scientific classification
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Species:	Template:Taxonomy/AlliumA. sikkimense
Binomial name
	Template:Taxonomy/AlliumAllium sikkimense; Baker
Synonyms
	Allium cyaneum var. brachystemon Regel; Allium kansuense Regel; Allium tibeticum Rendle;

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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.^[2] The species is cultivated as an ornamental in other regions because of its strikingly beautiful blue flowers.^[3]^[4]^[5] It is used medicinally in the Sikkim Eastern Himalayas. ^[6]

Allium sikkimense has a cluster of narrow bulbs generally less than 5 mm in diameter. 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.^[2]^[7]^[8]^[9]

References[edit]

[1] The Plant List

[freetibet-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Flora of China v 24 p 178, Allium sikkimense

[3] Plant World Seeds, Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom

[4] Sequim Rare Plants, Sequim, Washington State, USA

[5] Dave's Garden Plant Files

[O'Neill_al2017-6] O'Neill, A. R.; Badola, H.K.; Dhyani, P. P.; Rana, S. K. (2017). "Integrating ethnobiological knowledge into biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 13 (1): 21. doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0148-9. PMC 5372287. PMID 28356115.

[7] Baker, John Gilbert. 1874. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 12(142): 292–293.

[8] Regel, Eduard August von. 1887. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 10(2): 690, as Allium kansuense

[9] Rendle, Alfred Barton. 1906. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 44(2): 41–42, as Allium tibeticum

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