Allium jacquemontii is a plant species native to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Xizang (Tibet) and Xinjiang. It grows high in the mountains at elevations of .Flora of China v 24 p 200, Allium jacquemontiiFlora of Pakistan, Allium jacquemontii
Allium jacquemontii forms solitary egg-shaped bulbs about across. Scapes are up to tall. Umbel forms a hemisphere of many densely packed red or purple flowers.Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4: 399.Wendelbo, Per Erland Berg. 1967. Nytt Magasin for Botanikk Oslo xiv. 104.
Taxonomy The Latin specific epithet jacquemontii refers to the French botanist and geologist Victor Jacquemont (1844–1912).Allen J. Coombes
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