Allium descendens Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 298. 1753.

"Habitat in Helvetia." RCN: 2360.

Type not designated.

Original material: Herb. Linn. No. 419.15 (LINN); [icon] in Haller, De Allii Genere: 23, t. 1, f. 1. 1745; [icon] in Rudbeck, Campi Elysii 2: 160, f. 20. 1701; [icon] in Rudbeck, Campi Elysii 2: 165, f. 13. 1701.

Current name: Allium sphaerocephalon L. subsp. sphaerocephalon ( Liliaceae / Alliaceae).

Note: This name has been widely treated as a nomen ambiguum by authors such as Kollmann (in Taxon 19: 789. 1970), Stearn & Özhatay (in Ann. Mus. Goulandris 3: 46. 1977) and Mathew (Rev. Allium Sect. Allium: 119. 1996). However, no formal proposal for rejection has been made.