Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
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Plantago lanigera Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 227 (1864)
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
227
ICN
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
species
Plantago lanigera
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
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Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
2n = 24
2n = 12
2n = 24
2n = 24
2n = 12
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Primary root short-lived; adventitious roots numerous from amongst old lf bases. Stem short, simple, clothed with copious long fine hairs. Lvs radical, rosulate and usually forming a close flat mat; petiole short, broad. Lamina 5-50 × 3-20 mm, narrowly to broadly elliptic or somewhat rhombic, subcoriaceous, with scattered to dense, long, curled septate hairs or nearly glabrous, especially beneath; lateral veins 2, usually inconspicuous; margin entire or with inconspicuous teeth, mostly ciliate; base attenuate; apex broad and ± obtuse. Scape c. 0.5-8-(17) cm long, sparsely to densely pilose. Spike 1-8-(20)-flowered, to c. 1-(2.5) cm long. Bracts 1.5-2.5-(5) mm long, ovate, glabrous or nearly so; keel raised, rather wide, herbaceous, otherwise bract membranous. Sepals 2-3.5 mm long, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, glabrous; keel distinct. Corolla tube short; lobes 1.2-1.8 × 0.4-0.8 mm, narrow-ovate or ovate. Capsule 2-3 mm long, ± suborbicular to broad-ellipsoid. Seeds 4- c. 14, 1-2 mm long, rather irregular in shape.
Taxonomic concepts
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Plantago lanigera var. petriei Cheeseman
Plantago lanigera Hook.f.
Historic biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
also indigenous to New Guinea
Collections
Notes
editorial
"... . This might suggest that two species are indeed present, but the issue needs further testing because none of the five individuals sampled in Tay et al. (2010) can be definitively identified as P. novae-zelandiae.
Metadata
2948e4b6-e249-4222-bbea-83218af711d9
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 June 2012