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Taxonomy

Physical Description

Genus 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.

A cosmopolitan genus, with approximately 270 species, which is represented in Pakistan by nearly 20 species.^[1]

Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Plantago:

There are approximately 1,497 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: P. afra zwierleinii · P. alpina incana · P. amplexicaulis giacominii · P. arenaria orientalis · P. argentea liburnica · P. asiatica densiflora · P. asiatica erosa · P. atrata circassica · P. atrata discolor · P. atrata ucrainica · P. australis angustifolia · P. australis brevipila · P. australis buchtienii · P. australis dielsiana · P. australis ecuadorensis · P. australis hartwegii · P. australis macrostachys · P. australis orbignyana · P. australis pachyneura · P. australis pseudomollior · P. australis supina · P. australis tenuipala · P. australis truncata · P. barbata gigantea · P. barbata monanthos · P. barbata muscoides · P. brasiliensis densa · P. brasiliensis tandilensis · P. canescens jurtzevii · P. canescens richardsonii · P. canescens septata · P. canescens tolmatschevii · P. canescens trautvetteri · P. coronopus humilis · P. coronopus occidentalis · P. depressa turczaninowii · P. durvillei eupachyneura · P. durvillei mollior · P. durvillei pflanzenreich · P. durvillei pflanzii · P. holosteum grovesii · P. holosteum libanotica · P. holosteum littoralis · P. holosteum macrantha · P. humilis atlantis · P. humilis granatensis · P. humilis insularis · P. humilis sarda · P. juncoides scabrior · P. lagopus cylindrica · P. lagopus ptolemaidis · P. loeflingii notata · P. major cornuti · P. major sinuata · P. maritima alpina · P. maritima juncoides · P. maritima neumannii · P. maritima salsa · P. maritima subpolaris · P. minuta lessingii · P. monticola angusta · P. monticola crispula · P. monticola eumonticola · P. monticola herrerai · P. monticola sericans · P. myosuros nudiuscula · P. orbignyana niederleinii · P. pachyneura eupachyneura · P. pachyneura mollior · P. pachyneura pflanzii · P. pusilla engelmannii · P. radicata acantophylla · P. radicata granatensis · P. radicata monticola · P. scabra orientalis · P. sempervirens asperrima · P. sericea araucana · P. sericea argyrophylla · P. sericea caulescens · P. sericea perreymondii · P. spathulata picta · P. stuckertii catamarcensis · P. subulata humilis · P. tomentosa affinis · P. tomentosa balansai · P. tomentosa dasystachys · P. tomentosa grisebachii · P. tomentosa leiocalyx · P. tomentosa paralias · P. tomentosa petiolata · P. tomentosa schlechtendaliana · P. tomentosa selloana · P. tomentosa spathulifolia · P. truncata eschscholtziana · P. truncata eutruncata · P. truncata skottsbergii · P. uliginosa mandakii · P. uliginosa winteri · P. weldenii purpurascens · P. abyssinica

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15738383
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:684829-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2094518

Footnotes:

1. "Plantago". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.