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, NIS, EGL, EGU, 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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