| Plantago lanceolata L., it is an acaulescent perennial herb, 30 (-60) cm tall. Leaves thin ± narrow lanceolate or narrow elliptic, 2-25 (-30) cm x 0.5-3.5 (-5) cm, sometimes long attenuate, apex acute, with narrow petioled base, 3-5 (-7)-nerved, appressed pubescent along the nerves or glabrous, entire or slightly dentate. Seapes erect, 15-30 (-60) cm long, twice as long as the leaves, strongly 5-sulcatc, appressed hairy. Spikes dense, short, conical-cylindrical or sub globose, 4.5 (-8) cm long. Bracts usually ovate, 2.5-3.5 (-5) mm long, ovate, glabrous or shortly hairy. Sepals 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous or villous at the margin: anterior sepals connate more than half their length, obovate, bilobed. Corolla tube 2-3 mm long, glabrous, lobes narrow, 1.5-2.5 mm long, lanceolate-ovate, acute or acuminate, glabrous. Stamens 3-5 mm long, cexserted, anthers yellow. Capsule 3-4 mm. Seeds 2, cymbiform, c. 2 mm long, smooth. Life Form: H, Flowering in: Mar-Jul, Vern:—————–, Phytochoria: Cosm, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, N. Africa to Mauritania, Temp. Eurasia. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information:https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:321285-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/321285-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000486603, https://www.gbif.org/species/8208358, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/115122/plantago-lanceolata-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/874.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_plantainlanceole.php, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/plantago_lanceolata.htm, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/plantago/lanceolata/, https://www.floraofqatar.com/plantago_lanceolata.htm, https://seedidguide.idseed.org/fact_sheets/plantago-lanceolata/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Reported from Tripoli by Durand & Barratte Sabrata 2008 El-Zawia 2015 Research station (faculties of Agriculture) 2017 Sabratha region 2020 | Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006 | Sirte 2015, 2016 |
| Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Between Slouk and Al-Abiar 2016 | Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Tarhuna (Terghlat) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Wadi Kaam (Dam & lake) 2022 | Reported from Gubba, Derna, Wadi Derna by Durand & Barratte (13 km) from Ras El-Hilal on way to Gubba 1979 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Wadi El-Kauf 2014 Wadi Haboon 2015 Wadi Derna 2017 Ain Mara 2020 |
| Marmarica Plateau | ||
| Reported from Tobruk by Durand & Barratte Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 | ||
| Bibliographic references: | |
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