| Plantago ovata Forssk., it is a perennial subcaulescent herb, up to 5 (-10) cm tall. Leaves in rosettes, narrow linear, 2-5 (-10) cm x 1-2 (-3) mm, obtuse to acute, entire or remotely denticulate, 3-nerved, densely covered with appressed wooly hairs with bases slightly dilated. Scapes scarcely exceeding the leaves 1-9 cm; spikes dense, globular to ovate or oblong, 0.5-2.5 cm long. Bracts c. 3 mm long, rotund-ovate, glabrous, obtuse, midrib herbaceous, extending to tip, margin scarious; sometimes slightly hairy. Sepals ovate, carinate, c. 3 mm long, obtuse, scarious, glabrous, the anterior one usually pubescent. Corolla-tube 1.5-2 mm long, lobes ovate or orbicular, glabrous, 2.5·2.75 mm long. Stamens exserted up to 1 mm. Capsule c. 3 mm long. Seeds 2. smooth, pale-brown, 2.2-2.3 x 1.15-1.25 x 0.7-0.75 mm long, mucilaginous, cymbiform (navicular), ± elliptical in outline; Dorsal face convex, ventral face canaliculated, with the thread located towards its central part. Seed surface somewhat shiny, amber, honeycomb-reticulated, with the pattern only perceptible under high magnification. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-May, Vern: Halma, Phytochoria: Pal, The native range of this species is SE. Spain, N. Africa to India and Somalia, SW. & S. Central U.S.A. to N. Mexico. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information:https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:685486-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/685486-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000486655, https://www.gbif.org/species/3189723, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/115149/plantago-ovata-forssk, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=205, http://www.flowersinisrael.com/Plantagoovata_page.htm, http://www.floradecanarias.com/plantago_ovata.html |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Sabrata 2008 | Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2015 | (4 km) W. Bugrain 1975 Sirte 2015, 2016 |
| Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004 Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Ajdabia (Al-Bedan) 2016 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 | Gharian 1970 Rumia, (25 km) from Nalut 1974 (11 km) from Nalut, (2 km) from the main road, (26 km) from Nalut 1975 Between Shakshuk and Qasr Al-Haj 1976 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Terghlat) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 | Gebel Akhder 2007 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 Wadi Al-Ager 2017 |
| Marmarica Plateau | Al-Qibla area | |
| Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 | Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013 | |
| Bibliographic references: | |
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