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Isabgol

Common Names


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About    Taxonomy


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Plantago ovata Forssk.

FAMILY 


Plantaginaceae Juss.

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

OTHER FAMILY:


Veronicaceae

SUBTRIBE


Plantagineae

GENUS 


Plantago L.

SPECIES


ovata Forssk. Fl. aegypt.-arab. 31. 1775


Plant Description


Annual subscaulescent herb, up to 5 (-10) cm tall, sparsely or thickly covered with soft hairs. Leaves in rosettes, narrow linear, 2-10 cm long, 1-1.5 (-2.5) mm broad, obtuse to acute, entire or distantly denticulate, 3-nerved, densely covered with appressed wooly hairs, attenuated at bases, bases slightly dialted. Scapes ascendent, 1-9 cm long, glabrous, or at the upper part pubescent. Flowers in dense capituliform or short cylindrical, 0.5-2 cm long thick spikes. Bracts ovate to rotundate, 3 mm long, concave, membranous, upper margins ciliate. Sepals usually glabrous, elliptic obovate, up to 3 mm long. Corolla lobes broad ovate to broad rotundate cordate, glabrous. Capsules 8 mm long, ellipsoid, obtuse, membranous, glabrous. Seeds 2, small ovoid-oblong, boat-shaped, smooth, yellowish-brown.

 

*Description source:  Efloras.org

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