Allium gilgiticum

Allium gilgiticum is an Asian species of onion,^[1] a rare and quite possibly extinct species. It is known only from the type collection, gathered in the 1930s in Gilgit District in Pakistan, high in the Himalayas, part of the Kashmir region long disputed with India. The plant is about 50 cm tall, with a hemispheric umbel of purple flowers.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Gilgit onion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Subgenus:	A. subg. Butomissa
Species:	A. gilgiticum
Binomial name
Allium gilgiticum F.T. Wang & Tang