Plantago coronopus
L. Buck's-horn PlantainTaprooted perennial or annual. Leaves rosetted, oblong to narrow-oblong in outline, 1–8(–30) cm long, 0.5–2 cm wide, pubescent to glabrescent, 1-veined, pinnatisect or deeply toothed, rarely entire; petiole indistinct. Spike cylindric, 1–5(–12) cm long, dense; peduncles mostly 2–30 cm long, densely antrorse-hairy; bracts broad-ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm long. Sepals ovate to elliptic, 2–3 mm long, unequal, keeled; corolla-tube 1–1.5 mm long, pubescent, lobes c. 1 mm long, spreading or reflexed; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, exserted. Capsule ovoid, 2–2.5 mm long; seeds usually 5, sometimes fewer by abortion, globose to compressed-ovoid, mostly 0.5–1 mm long, greyish or brown.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MSB, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp.
3 subspecies, 2 in Victoria.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Plantaginaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 463–474. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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