Annual or sometimes perennial herb ; up to 10 cm high . Stems very short or absent , branched from base , with leaves forming a basal rosette , densely silvery-silky hairy . Leaves l30–60 × 4–18 mm , lanceolate to lanceolate-spathulate , base tapering , apex acute , margins entire or with a few denticulations , densely white-woolly , 1-veined , greyish-green . Inflorescences in pedunculate , congested spikes ; peduncles up to 7 cm , woolly ; spikes ovate to ovate-cylindrical , up to 2 cm ; bracts ± 3 mm , concave , ovate , margins ciliate , dorsally covered with long hairs , midrib green to brownish keeled . Flowers tubular ; calyx 4-lobed , 2–3 mm , lobes unequal , margins ciliate ; corolla tubular , 4-lobed above ; tube ± 2 mm , glabrous ; lobes ± 1 . 5 mm , broadly ovate , acute ; stamens 4 , exserted . Fruit capsule , 3 mm , pale brown , membranous when mature , dehiscence circumsessile , 2-seeded . Seeds ± 2 . 5 mm , oblong , glossy , brownish . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Plantago bellidifolia Viv.
Plantago ciliata subsp. lanata (Boiss.) Rech.f.
Plantago eriantha Decne.
Plantago penicillata Endl. & Fenzl
Plantago setosa Bertol.
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Ciliate Plantain
The little seeds cooked to make porridge. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.sciencedirect.com *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
