Plantago obconica Sykes
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Plantago obconica Sykes, New Zealand J. Bot. 26: 321-322 (1988)
Plantago obconica Sykes
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Nomenclature
Sykes
Sykes
1988
321-322
ICN
Plantago obconica Sykes
species
Plantago obconica
Classification
Descriptions
Plantago obconica Sykes
2n = 12
Plantago obconica Sykes
Primary root short-lived; adventitious roots in a prominent circle around the primary root scar cavity. Stem very short, simple, with dense, long, hairy tuft. Lvs in flat rosettes, radical, sessile, 10-30-(36) × 0.4-1-(1.8) mm, linear-subulate or narrow-linear, subcoriaceous, glabrous or with scattered marginal hairs more numerous towards the base, entire or with distant obtuse teeth; main vein 1; apex obtuse. Scape 1.5-11 mm long at flowering, scarcely elongating at fruiting, glabrous, mostly hidden by stem hairs. Fls solitary, glabrous. Bracts and sepals 2-5.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate-elliptic, glabrous, membranous except for herbaceous keel. Corolla tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 1.7-2.5 × c. 0.5 mm, ± elliptic-ovate. Capsule (2.5)-4.5-11 × 2.5-3.5 mm, ellipsoid. Seeds 5-9, 1-1.8 mm long, ± ellipsoid or ovoidellipsoid but somewhat irregular and flattened.
Taxonomic concepts
Plantago obconica Sykes
Plantago obconica Sykes
Plantago obconica Sykes
Plantago obconica Sykes
Plantago obconica Sykes
Plantago obconica Sykes
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18 June 2012