Allium papillare is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae family. It is a wild onion found in sandy areas in southern and eastern Israel and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families It is a small bulb-forming perennial; flowers have white tepals with purple midveins.Boissier, Pierre Edmond. 1854. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum 13: 27.Danin, A. (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina area: 1-517. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.Boulos, L. (2005). Flora of Egypt 4: 1-617. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
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