Английская Википедия:Allium victorialis
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Speciesbox Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine broad-leaf allium[1] 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).[2][3]
Some authors consider certain East Asian and Alaskan populations as constituting subspecies platyphyllum within the species Allium victorialis.[4][5] Recent sources recognize this group as a distinct species, called Allium ochotense.[6][7][8][9]Шаблон:Sfn
General description
Allium victorialis attains a height of Шаблон:Convert and forms a sheathed bulb ("root-stalk") about the thickness of a finger and Шаблон:Convert long.[10] Leaves are broad, elliptical or lanceolate. Flowers (perianths) are whitish green.[10]
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),[11] 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.[11]
Uses
The plant, in past centuries in certain mountainous regions of Europe, "was cultivated as a medicinal and fetish plant".[12] It was also recorded as consumed by Ainu people in northern Japan.[13]
See also
- sansai
- ramsons
- Allium tricoccum (ramps)
References
Bibliography
External links
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium victorialis
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio serpentino, victory onion, alpine leek, Allium victorialis L. includes photos and European distribution map
- ↑ Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 234 Allium victorialis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753.
- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 172 茖葱 ge cong Allium victorialis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753.
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium ochotense Prokh.
- ↑ The Plant List, Allium ochotense Prokh.
- ↑ Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.
- ↑ Denisov, N. (2008). Addition to Vascular flora of the Kozlov island (Peter the Great Gulf, Japanese sea). Turczaninowia 11(4): 29-42.
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 Шаблон:Cite book. Шаблон:Convert height; and rootstalk Шаблон:Convert.
- ↑ 11,0 11,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
