• Scientific Name: Allium victorialis L.
• Ref: Sp. Pl.:295. 1753
• Synonyms:
  • Allium anguinum Bubani
  • A. convallarifolium Pall. ex Ledeb.
  • A. longibulbum Dulac
  • A. plantaginense Willk. & Lange
  • A. plantagineum Lam.
  • A. reticulatum St.-Lag.
  • Anguinum victorialis (L.) Fourr.
  • Berenice victorialis (L.) Salisb.
  • Caloscordum victorialis (L.) Banfi & Galasso
  • Cepa victorialis (L.) Moench
  • Geboscon lanceolatum Raf.
  • G. triphylum Raf.
• English Common Name: victory onion, alpine leek, alpine broad-leaf allium
• Chinese Common Name: 茖葱/格葱 gécōng, 山葱 shāncōng, 鹿耳葱 lù’ěr∙cōng
• Family: Amaryllidaceae
• Genus: Allium
• Distribution: Forests, shady and moist slopes, pastures, streamsides; 600–2500 m. Anhui, E Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang [India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia; Europe, NW North America].
• Photo: 04/07/2007. Qingliang Peak, Zhejiang

Bulb solitary or clustered, subcylindric; tunic grayish brown to blackish brown, reticulate. Leaves 2 or 3; petiole 2--10 cm; leaf blade oblanceolate-elliptic to elliptic, 8--12 × 3--9.5 cm, base cuneate to broadly so, gradually narrowed into petiole, decurrent, apex acute or acuminate. Scape 25--80 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths for 1/4--1/2 its length. Spathe 2-valved, persistent. Umbel globose. Pedicels 2--4 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth white or slightly tinged with green, very rarely tinged with red; outer segments boat-shaped, 4--5 × 1.5--2 mm, apex obtuse; inner ones elliptic-ovate, (4.5--)5--6 × 2--3 mm, apex obtuse, usually denticulate. Filaments 1.3--2 × as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones narrowly triangular, wider, 1--1.5 mm wide at base. Ovary constricted at base into a stipe ca. 1 mm; ovules 1 per locule. Fl. and fr. Jun--Aug. 2 n = 16, 32*. (Flora of China)