Plantago triandra

Perennial with adventitious roots. Leaves rosetted, ground-hugging, linear to broad-lanceolate, narrow- to broad-elliptic or narrow-ovate, 8–61 mm long, 0.7–11 mm wide, acute, glabrous or upper side with isolated patches of hairs or sparsely hairy towards middle, 1-veined, margins usually dentate or pinnately divided, occasionally entire; petiole indistinct. Spike 1–3-flowered, scape extremely short at flowering, to 2.5 cm long at fruiting, glabrous to densely hairy; bract elliptic, 0.4–3.4 mm long, usually acute, rarely obtuse, glabrous. Sepals ovate to broadly-ovate, 0.4–1.9 mm long, subequal, much shorter than capsule; corolla-tube 2–4.4 mm long, lobes 0.9–2.9 mm long, erect; anthers 0.7–1.4 mm long, exserted. Capsule ellipsoid or globose, rarely ovoid or broadly ovoid, 2.1–4.3 mm long; seeds 8–42, angular, 0.5–1.4 mm long, brown. Flowers mainly Dec.–Feb.