Allium victorialis

Alpine leek, commonly picked and eaten as wild onions on the northern island of Japan. It grows widely on the south side in mountainous regions of Hokkaido in Japan (Caucasus and Himalayas).[3][4]

Alpine leek
victory onion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. victorialis
Binomial name
Allium victorialis
L. Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753[1][2]
Synonyms[3]

Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, is a broad-leaved Eurasian species of wild onion. It is a perennial of the Amaryllis family that occurs widely in mountainous regions of Europe and parts of Asia (Caucasus and Himalayas).[3][4]

Some authors consider certain East Asian and Alaskan populations as constituting subspecies platyphyllum within the species Allium victorialis.[5][6] Recent sources recognize this group as a distinct species, called Allium ochotense.[7][8][9][10][11]

General description

Allium victorialis attains a height of 30–45 cm (11.8–17.7 in) and forms a sheathed bulb ("root-stalk") about the thickness of a finger and 5–8 cm (2.0–3.1 in) long.[12] Leaves are broad elliptical or lanceolate. Flowers (perianths) are whitish green.[12]

Distribution

Allium victorialis is found widely across mountain ranges Europe, as well as the Caucasus and the Himalayas.[3]

Nomenclature

The specific epithet victorialis comes from the German Siegwurz (Root of Victory),[13] and it earned this name having been "worn as an amulet, to be as safeguard against the attacks of certain impure spirits," by Bohemian miners among others.[13]

Uses

The plant, in past centuries in certain mountainous regions of Europe, "was cultivated as a medicinal and fetish plant".[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Allium victorialis". Flora of North America. (FNA). Missouri Botanical Garden – via EFloras.org.
  2. ↑ GRIN (May 12, 2011). "Allium victorialis L. information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium victorialis
  4. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio serpentino, victory onion, alpine leek, Allium victorialis L. includes photos and European distribution map
  5. ↑ Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 234 Allium victorialis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753.
  6. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 172 茖葱 ge cong Allium victorialis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753.
  7. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium ochotense Prokh.
  8. ↑ The Plant List, Allium ochotense Prokh.
  9. ↑ Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.
  10. ↑ Denisov, N. (2008). Addition to Vascular flora of the Kozlov island (Peter the Great Gulf, Japanese sea). Turczaninowia 11(4): 29-42.
  11. ↑ Choi, H.J. & Oh, B.U. (2011). A partial revision of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) in Korea and north-eastern China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 167: 153-211.
  12. 1 2 Thompson, Harold Stuart (1912). Sub-alpine Plants: Or, Flowers of the Swiss Woods and Meadows (preview). G. Routledge & Sons. p. 280.. 1–1.5 ft (0.30–0.46 m) height; and rootstalk 5.1–7.6 cm (2–3 in).
  13. 1 2 "Allium victorialis. Long-rooted garlic". Curtis's botanical magazine 30: 1222–. 1809.
  14. ↑ Rabinowitch, Haim D.; Currah, Lesley (2002). Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances (preview). CABI. p. 26. ISBN 978-0851-99510-6.

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