Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Plantagineae is a member of the Subfamily Plantaginoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Plantagineae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Asteridae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Lamianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Lamiales
Bromhead, 1838
- Family: Plantaginaceae
(kee-nor-RYE-num)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Plantaginoideae
- Tribe: Plantagineae
- Subfamily: Plantaginoideae
- Family: Plantaginaceae
(kee-nor-RYE-num)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Order: Lamiales
Bromhead, 1838
- Superorder: Lamianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Asteridae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866
The Tribe Plantagineae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (1): Plantago
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 58 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Plantagineae.
Genera
Plantago
Annual or perennial, or mostly acaulescent herbs, sometimes an undershrub. Leaves usually all radical, sometimes cauline. Flowers hermaphrodite, dimorphic, polygamous, usually in many-flowered cylindrical spikes, rarely capitate. Calyx lobes subequal or 2 large and 2 small. Corolla tube cylindrical, sometimes contracted at the throat, usually equalling the calyx, sometimes exserted, lobes 4, equal, patent. Stamens 4, inserted at or above the middle of the corolla tube, often exserted. Ovary 2-locular or 3-4-locular with false free septa; locules with 1 to many ovules. Capsule membranous, circumscissile. Seeds usually peltate, testa thin, mucilaginous, albumen fleshy.[1] [more]
At least 1,427 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Plantago.
More info about the Genus Plantago may be found here.
Footnotes
- "Plantago". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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