| Plantago coronopus L., it is an annual or perennial, acaulescent herb, up to 3-15 (-20) cm tall, hirsute, hairs ± apprcssed. Leaves linear to lanceolate, 1-10 (-12) cm x 1.5-5 mm, pinnate-dentate to 1-2-pinnatifid; lobes linear or lanceolate, acute, rarely entire, glabrous or pubescent. Scapes usually many, 1.5-5 (-8) cm long, decumbent or ascendant, longer or sometimes shorter than the leaves. Spikes narrow cylindrical, dense. Braets ovate, margin scarious, narrow, sub-acute, or abruptly attenuate into a long apex, shorter than or as long as calyx, short appressed hairy. Anterior sepals elliptic, 2-3 mm long, margins scarious, ciliate, keeled, posterior sepals ovate, c. 3 mm long, slightly ciliate. Corolla-tube pilose, lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule 3-locular. Seeds 3-6. c. 1 mm long, cymbiform. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Jul, Vern: Krah- digiagia, Phytochoria: ES+MED+IT, The native range of this species is Europe to Central Asia and W. Pakistan, Macaronesia to Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information:https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:685048-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/685048-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000487725, https://www.gbif.org/species/3189739, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/115117/plantago-coronopus-l, https://www.maltawildplants.com/PLNT/Plantago_coronopus.php, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/873.html, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/plantago_coronopus.htm, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/plantago/coronopus/, https://www.i-flora.com/en/the-smartphone-apps/iflora-deutschland/species/art/show/plantago-coronopus-1.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_coronopus |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| Farwa Island 1971 Tripoli 1972 Sabrata 2008 Mallaha Wetland Tripoli 2016 Sabratha region 2020 Coastal of Tripoli 2020 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021 | Leptus Megna 2004 Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006, 2008 | A-Awenia, (7 km) from Rumia, (5 km) after Asaba 1974 Between Shakshuk and Qase Al-haj, Sharshara 1976 Miallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Arabeen, Sok-El-Ahed, Whedat, Zurgan) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | ||
| El-kouf area 1984 Gebel Akhder 2007 Al-Mansora 2013 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 | ||
| Bibliographic references: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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