Plantago 



Plantaginaceae 



867 



50 



Map 1897 



Phryma Leptostachya L. 



269. PLANTAGINACEAE Lindl. Plantain Family 

 [Pilger, Robert. Plantaginaceae. Das Pflanzenreich, IV. 269. 1937.] 



8116. PLANTAGO [Tourn.] L. Plantain 



Plants acaulescent; flowers spicate or capitate at the ends of scapes. 



Corolla lobes spreading or reflexed in fruit, not closed over the top of the capsule. 

 Leaves broad, abruptly contracted, generally into long petioles; petioles much 

 longer than half the length of the blades; spikes long and slender; seeds not 

 hollowed on the inner face. 



Ribs of the broad leaves arising from the midrib; capsule 2-4-seeded 



1. P. cordata. 



Ribs of the leaves free to the contracted base; capsule generally more than 

 4-seeded. 

 Bracts and sepals broad and rounded, obtuse; capsule ovate, about 2.5 mm 

 long, circumscissile near the middle; seed mostly 7-15, usually about 0.5 



mm wide and 1 mm long 2. P. major. 



Bracts and sepals narrow, subacute; capsule elliptic-oblong, about 3.5 mm 

 long, circumscissile much below the middle; seed 4-9, about 0.5-0.8 mm 

 wide and 1-1.5 mm long. 



Scapes and leaves entirely glabrous 3. P. Rugelii. 



Scapes and usually the lower surface of the leaves more or less pubescent. 



3a. P. Rugelii var. asperula. 



Leaves lanceolate or linear; capsule 2-seeded; seeds concave on the inner face. 



Lower bracts at least twice as long as the flowers 4. P. aristata. 



Lower bracts less than twice as long as the flowers. 



Leaves lanceolate, linear-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, more than 5 mm wide; 



mature spikes generally about 8 mm wide near the base; bracts not 



silky-pubescent. 



Spike at beginning of anthesis narrowly ovoid-conic, tapering to the apex, 



in fruit cylindric and obtuse, 1.5-8 cm long; leaf blades 0.5-2.3 dm 



long, 0.6-4 cm wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above 



5. P. lanceolata. 



Spike at beginning of anthesis subglobose, rounded to the apex, in fruit 

 subglobose to cylindric and obtuse, 0.5-2.3 cm long; leaf blades 0.2-1.2 

 dm long, 0.3-2 cm wide; upper surface gray with abundant, long hairs. 

 5a. P. lanceolata var. sphaerostacJvya f . eriophora. 



