Allium reticulatumSt.-Lag. 1880, illegitimate homonym not J. Presl & C. Presl 1819
Allium anguinumBubani.
Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine broad-leaf allium[5] 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 (including Caucasus) and parts of Asia (Himalayas).[4][6]
Some authors consider certain East Asian and Alaskan populations as constituting subspecies platyphyllum within the species Allium victorialis.[2][7] Recent sources recognize this group as a distinct species, called Allium ochotense.[8][9][10][11][12]
General description
Allium victorialis attains a height of 30–45cm (11.8–17.7in) and forms a sheathed bulb ("root-stalk") about the thickness of a finger and 5–8cm (2.0–3.1in) long.[13] Leaves are broad, elliptical or lanceolate. Flowers (perianths) are whitish green.[13]
Distribution
Allium victorialis is found widely across mountain ranges Europe, as well as the Caucasus and the Himalayas.[4]
Nomenclature
The specific epithetvictorialis comes from the German Siegwurz (Root of Victory),[14] 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.[14]
Uses
The plant, in past centuries in certain mountainous regions of Europe, "was cultivated as a medicinal and fetish plant".[15] The plant known as pukusa to the Ainu people in northern Japan, an important food source, had been classed as A .victorialis subsp. platyphyllum,[16] but recent genetics classify it under its own species, Allium ochotense.[17]
↑ Holubec, V., Magos Brehm, J., Uzundzhalieva, K., Vögel, R., Vörösváry, G., Eliáš, P. & Duarte, M.C. (2011). Allium victorialis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T172231A6854104. Downloaded on 05 January 2019.
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