Allium lamondiae Illustration Credit: M.Y. Saleem

Plants 15-25 cm tall. Bulb ovoid, 2-3 cm long, outer coats fibrous, dirty brown, inner membranous, veined. Scapes glabrous. Umbels hemispherical. Flowers condensed. Leaves 2-3, narrowly cylindrical, 0.5-1.5 mm broad, fistular. Pedicels up to 12 mm long. Tepals 5-6 mm long, elliptic, white with reddish brown veins. Filaments shorter than the tepals, 3-4 mm long, entire, connate at the base, inner filaments broader than the outer. Style 1.5 mm long; stigma capitate. Capsules subglobose.

Fl. Per.: April-May.

Type: Baluchistan: Qila Abdullah, Lamond 1055(E).

Distribution: Pakistan, Afghanistan and E. Iran.