Allium victorialis

Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine
Allium victorialis
broad-leaf allium[4] 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][5]

Some authors consider certainEast Asian and Alaskan populations as constituting

subspecies platyphyllum within the species Allium victorialis.[6][7] Recent sources
recognize this group as a distinct species, calledAllium ochotense.[8][9][10][11][12]

Contents
General description
Distribution
Nomenclature
Uses
Scientific classification
See also
References Kingdom: Plantae
Bibliography Clade: Angiosperms
External links
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
General description Family: Amaryllidaceae
Allium victorialis attains a height of 30–45 cm (11.8–17.7 in) and forms a Subfamily: Allioideae
sheathed bulb ("root-stalk") about the thickness of a finger and 5–8 cm (2.0– Genus: Allium
3.1 in) long.[13] Leaves are broad elliptical or lanceolate. Flowers (perianths) are
whitish green.[13]
Species: A. victorialis
Binomial name
Distribution Allium victorialis
Allium victorialis is found widely across mountain ranges Europe, as well as the L. Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753 [1][2]
Caucasus and the Himalayas.[3] Synonyms[3]
Synonymy
Nomenclature
The specific epithet victorialis comes from the German Siegwurz (Root of Victory),[14] and it earned this name having been "worn as
[14]
an amulet, to be as safeguard against the attacks of certain impure spirits," by Bohemian miners among others.

Uses
[15]
The plant, in past centuries in certain mountainous regions of Europe, "was cultivated as a medicinal and fetish plant".

See also
 sansai
ramsons
Allium tricoccum (ramps)

References
1. "Allium victorialis" (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200027546). Flora of North America
(FNA). Missouri Botanical Garden– via eFloras.org.
2. GRIN (May 12, 2011). "Allium victorialis L. information from NPGS/GRIN"(http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/cgi-bin/ta
xon.pl?2415). Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory , Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS,
National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium victorialis (http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id
=296917)
4. Korea National Arboretum (2015).English Names for Korean Native Plants(https://web.archive.org/web/201705251
05020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf)(PDF).
Pocheon: National Arboretum. p. 348.ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (http://www.forest.go.kr/k
na/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf)(PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved
27 November 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
5. Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio serpentino, victory onion, alpine leek,Allium victorialis L. (http://luirig.altervista.org/flor
a/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+victorialis)includes photos and European distribution map
6. Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 234 Allium victorialis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753.(http://www.efloras.org/flor
ataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200027546)
7. Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 172 茖葱 ge cong Allium victorialis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 295. 1753.(http://www.efloras.o
rg/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027546)
8. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium ochotense Prokh. (http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?n
ame_id=296132)
9. The Plant List, Allium ochotense Prokh. (http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296132)
10. Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae V
asculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.
11. Denisov, N. (2008). Addition to Vascular flora of the Kozlov island (Peter the Great Gulf, apanese
J sea).
Turczaninowia 11(4): 29-42.
12. Choi & Oh 2011.
13. Thompson, Harold Stuart (1912).Sub-alpine Plants: Or, Flowers of the Swiss Woods and Meadows (https://books.go
ogle.com/books?id=BhwyAQAAMAAJ&pg=P A280) (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).
14. "Allium victorialis. Long-rooted garlic"(https://books.google.com/books?id=OkwCAAAA
YAAJ&pg=RA4-PA1222).
Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 30: 1222–. 1809.
15. Rabinowitch, Haim D.; Currah, Lesley (2002).Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances(https://books.google.com/boo
ks?id=dE7a8SJ9Q7AC&pg=PA26) (preview). CABI. p. 26. ISBN 978-0851-99510-6.

Bibliography
Choi, Hyeok JAE; Oh, Byoung UN (October 2011)."A partial revision of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) in Korea and north-
eastern China". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (2): 153–211. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01166.x.

External links
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