Allium phariense Rendle

Bulb solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3, narrowly ovoid, 0.7--1.5 cm in diam.; tunic grayish black, membranous or papery, entire or apex separated. Leaves linear, falcate, equaling to slightly longer than scape, rarely shorter, 2--5(--7) mm wide, flat. Scape usually nodding distally, 6--15 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1- or 2-valved, persistent. Umbel globose, densely many flowered. Pedicels subequal, 1.5--2 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth white; segments with purple midvein when dried, narrowly ovate to obovate-oblong, 4.5--6 × 2--2.5 mm; inner ones sometimes slightly longer and narrower than outer, apex obtuse, sometimes slightly retuse. Filaments subulate, equal, 1.25--1.5 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments for ca. 1 mm. Ovary subglobose, without concave nectaries at base. Style exserted. Fl. and fr. Jul--Aug.

NW Sichuan (Dêgê Xian), S Xizang [Bhutan].

Meadows, gravelly slopes; 4400--5200 m.

Allium phariense is an Asian species of wild onion native to mountainous areas of Bhutan, Sichuan, and Tibet. It grows at elevations of 4400–5200 m.

Allium phariense has 1-3 egg-shaped bulbs up to 10 15 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 15 cm long, usually nodding toward the tip. Leaves are about the same length as the scape. Umbel is a spherical cluster of many white flowers crowded together.