Abstract
Allium consanguineum Kunth. growing wild in the Himalayas is a diploid species with 2n=16. Gohil and Koul (1971) recorded its chromosome number and also described the details of meiosis in a normal and a desynaptic clone.
During the course of further work on this species some plants were isolated from one of the population in which quadrivalents, hexavalents, trivalents and univalents were observed during metaphase I. These plants are heterozygous for more than one interchange. The multivalents oriented non-disjunctionally resulting in total sterility. These plants propagate through underground bulbs and thereby conserve their hybridity.
