{"id":1404957,"date":"2016-12-26T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:53:29","slug":"allium-carolinianum","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/allium-carolinianum\/","title":{"rendered":"Allium carolinianum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Allium<\/i> carolinianum<\/i> DC., Liliac. 2: t. 101 1804<\/i>.\u00a0(Syn: Allium<\/i> aitchisonii<\/i> Boiss.<\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Allium<\/i> obtusifolium<\/i> Klotzsch<\/span><\/a>; Allium<\/i> platyspathum<\/i> var. falcatum<\/i> Regel<\/span><\/a>; Allium<\/i> platystylum<\/i> Regel<\/span><\/a>; Allium<\/i> polyphyllum<\/i> Kar. & Kir.<\/span><\/a>; Allium<\/i> polyphyllum<\/i> var. nudicaule<\/i> Regel<\/span><\/a>; Allium<\/i> thomsonii<\/i> Baker<\/span><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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The commonest Allium I have come across<\/span> in Ladakh<\/span> in A.carolinianum<\/i> – even saw a poster of it along the road by Leh airport last time I visited Ladakh. Makes a pleasant change to have a plant given prominence rather than just animals!<\/span>
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I have attached a\u00a04 images taken on my behalf as slides in the 1980s + 1 by Oleg Polunin in the 1970s\u00a0which I have scanned in.\u00a0\u00a0They do not show close-up detail but are a start<\/div>\n
Hopefully, this will encourage group members who can visit Ladakh to take better close-ups of\u00a0the common and most prominent species such as A.carolinianum<\/i>\u00a0but other Alliums<\/i> as well, as the genus has been neglected by travellers and field botanists to Ladakh (as have less showy families such as Poaceae<\/i> (formerly Gramineae<\/i>), Cyperaceae<\/i>, Juncaceae<\/i>\u00a0 and numerous others that do not “catch the eye”.\u00a0 Yet these plants are often very important ecologically.<\/span>
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Members of my team collected a herbarium specimen of\u00a0Allium carolinianum<\/i>\u00a0for the University of Kashmir herbarium during the University of Southampton Ladakh Expedition in 1980.<\/div>\n
It was found at Rangdum, Suru Valley @ 4150m<\/span> on a mountain slope facing West in dry stony sandy soil<\/span> with Dianthus, Artemisia, Ephedra<\/i>\u00a0and grasses<\/span>; dull green leaves, prominent onion smell from bulb and leaves, mauve-purple flowers, mauve stamens. To 30cm.<\/span>
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Some years later I found on the Rangdum-side of the Pensi La.<\/span>
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Flowers of Himalaya record this from Afghanistan to Central Nepal on stony slopes @ 3300-4800m.\u00a0<\/span>Does … know it from Uttarakhand? <\/span><\/span>
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Stewart knew this onion from N.Pakistan but not much in Ladakh – though Thomson found it in the Shyok Valley in the 19th Century. 2700-5100m.
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Stewart had no records from the Kashmir Valley either, though it is prominent enough on steep rocky slopes\/scree above Krishensar Lake (see the photo below taken by Polunin)\u00a0 Perhaps … knows it from Kashmir as well as Ladakh? <\/span>
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Flora of Lahaul-Spiti found it common on moist slopes<\/span> at Sissu – reporting that the local people used it as flavouring and it is also sold in the markets of hilly areas.<\/span><\/span> This suggests that digging up a bulb to be photographed (and then carefully planting back) to aid correct identification, is perfectly reasonable action (see my post on Allium przewalskianum<\/i>).
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The specific ephiphet (species name) is rather curious because this is not a North American species and IF my memory serves me when named back in 1804 it was thought the pressed specimen was from a region to justify the name ‘carolinianum’<\/i> – which is incorrect.\u00a0By the Code of Botanical Nomenclature the name must stand but perhaps there should be a means of corrected such mistakes!?
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Just remembered that during the Kashmir Botanical Expedition in 1983, one of my team members caught a trout in Vishensar or Krishensar Lake (it was the Scots who first stocked Kashmir’s Lakes with trout) whilst I gathered wild ‘chives’ from the nearby mountainside, which presumably would have been Allium carolinianum?\u00a0 We ended up with a meal of Trout with Almond & Chive sauce making a most pleasant change from normal\u00a0 ‘expedition’ fare – see image number 5.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nAllium carolinianum Redout\u00e9 submission AS9 September 2023<\/a>: 4 high res. images.<\/div>\n
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Here I am submitting some images of\u00a0Allium carolinianum<\/i>\u00a0presented on our eFI website with only a couple of images.<\/div>\n
Allium carolinianum\u00a0<\/i>Redout\u00e9<\/div>\n
Family –\u00a0Amaryllidaceae<\/em><\/div>\n
From Lahaul & Spiti district, Himachal\u00a0Pradesh (above 4000 m elevation)<\/span><\/div>\n
Photographed\u00a0in early August 2023,<\/span><\/p>\n
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References:
\n<\/span>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0WCSP<\/a> \u00a0e-monocot<\/a>\u00a0 Flora of China<\/a> FOC illustration<\/a> \u00a0Flora of Pakistan<\/a> \u00a0FOP illustration<\/a> Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0 PFAF<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Dave\u2019s Garden<\/a>\u00a0 Pacific Bulb Society<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allium carolinianum DC., Liliac. 2: t. 101 1804.\u00a0(Syn: Allium aitchisonii Boiss. [Illegitimate]; Allium obtusifolium Klotzsch; Allium platyspathum var. falcatum Regel; Allium platystylum Regel; Allium polyphyllum Kar. & Kir.; Allium polyphyllum var. nudicaule Regel; Allium thomsonii Baker); . C. Asia to Himalaya as per WCSP; . Fwd: Allium carolinianum : 1…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[4894],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1404957","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-allium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1404957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1404957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1404957"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1404957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}