Biology:Allium victorialis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Allium victorialis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Anguinum
Species:
A. victorialis
Binomial name
Allium victorialis
Synonyms[2]

Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine broad-leaf allium[3] 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).[2][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.[2]

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] The plant known as pukusa to the Ainu people in northern Japan, an important food source, had been classed as A .victorialis subsp. platyphyllum,[15] but recent genetics classify it under its own species, Allium ochotense.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium victorialis
  3. ↑ Korea National Arboretum (2015). English Names for Korean Native Plants. Pocheon: National Arboretum. pp. 348. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf. Retrieved 27 November 2016. 
  4. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio serpentino, victory onion, alpine leek, Allium victorialis L. includes photos and European distribution map
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named efloras-na
  6. ↑ Template:Efloras
  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 & Oh 2011.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Thompson, Harold Stuart (1912) (preview). Sub-alpine Plants: Or, Flowers of the Swiss Woods and Meadows. G. Routledge & Sons. p. 280. https://books.google.com/books?id=BhwyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA280. . 1–1.5 ft (0.30–0.46 m) height; and rootstalk 5.1–7.6 cm (2–3 in).
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Sims, John (1809). "Allium victorialis. Long-rooted garlic". Curtis's Botanical Magazine 30: 1222–. https://books.google.com/books?id=OkwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA1222. 
  14. ↑ Rabinowitch, Haim D.; Currah, Lesley (2002) (preview). Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances. CABI. p. 26. ISBN 978-0851-99510-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=dE7a8SJ9Q7AC&pg=PA26. 
  15. ↑ Bachelor, John (1893). "Ainu Economic Plants". https://www.tota.world/article/179/. 
  16. ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto, ed (2012). "CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants". CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants. CRC Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-4822-5064-0. 

Bibliography

  • Data related to Allium victorialis at Wikispecies
  • "Allium victorialis". http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Allium+victorialis. 

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