Английская Википедия:Allium victorialis

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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]

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