Plantago lanceolata Linné (1753: 113–114)

Hassemer, Gustavo, Shipunov, Alexey B., Rønsted, Nina & Meudt, Heidi M., 2018, Taxonomic and geographic novelties in the genus Plantago (Plantaginaceae) in Chile, including the description of a new species, Phytotaxa 340 (2), pp. 137-156 : 151

Plantago lanceolata Linné (1753: 113–114)

Type: —Herbarium George Clifford, p. 36, no. 3 (lectotype [designated by Verdcourt 1971: 6] BM-000557805 !) .

Illustrations: — Fig. 1 (7–9) in Verdcourt (1971).

Photographs: — Fig. 11 ; Figs. 12A and 13 in Murillo (2012).

Distribution and habitat: — Plantago lanceolata is originally native to Europe, northern Africa and western Asia, but has been introduced to and become naturalised in many areas on all continents except Antarctica ( Moore et al. 1976, Li et al. 2011). In Chile, this species is naturalised and had been hitherto recorded “desde la Provincia de El Loa hasta la provincia de Última Esperanza, entre los 22°– 51° S ” ( Murillo 2012) (see map in Fig. 12B in Murillo 2012). A specimen at SGO ( Fig. 11 ) comprises the first record of this species in Tarapacá region, northern Chile ( Fig. 7 ), extending its geographic distribution ca. 250 km to the north.

Conservation status: —Least concern (LC).

New record: — CHILE. TARAPACÁ: Huara: Quebrada de Coscaya , 2880 m, 9–10 March 1948, F. Sudzuki 573a ( SGO-111127 ! [ Fig. 11 ]) .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Lectotype of Plantago sericea (H. Ruiz L. & J.A. Pavón s.n., MA-815610). Copyright: Real Jardín Botanico de Madrid.

FIGURE 7. Distribution of Plantago johnstonii (red diamond), P. nebularis (green star) and the first record of P. lanceolata and P. pachyneura in Tarapacá region (blue triangle).

FIGURE 11. First record of Plantago lanceolata in Tarapacá region, northern Chile (F. Sudzuki 573a, SGO-111127). Copyright: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile.

FIGURE 12. First record of Plantago pachyneura in Tarapacá region, northern Chile (F. Sudzuki 578, SGO-111129). Copyright: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile.