Japanese name: キイイトラッキョウ（紀伊糸辣韮） Scientific name:Allium kiiense
[Overview]
A bulbous perennial about 15 cm tall.
It grows on sunny rocky sites from the hilly zone to low mountains.
The bulb is narrowly oblong-elliptic, about 20–25 mm long.
The leaves are basal, 10–20 cm long and about 1 mm wide, slender and cylindrical.
The flower stalk is 8–20 cm long and leafless, bearing around 10 reddish-purple flowers at the tip.
The tepals are broadly ovate with rounded tips, 3–4 mm long, and the stamens are markedly longer than the tepals.
The fruit is a capsule.
Ito-rakkyo can be distinguished by its somewhat larger flowers, with tepals about 5 mm long, and by stamens that are not as long as those of Kii-ito-rakkyo.
