Plantago ovata, Forskal

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 43

25. P. ovata Forskâl , Fl. Aegypt. 31 (1775).

Perennial with one or few rosettes. Leaves 2-5-12x 0- 1-0- 8 cm, linear to linearlanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate, sparsely to densely villous-lanate. Scapes only slightly exceeding leaves, terete, shortly villous; spikes 0-5-3-5 cm, dense. Bracts c. 3 mm, suborbicular to ovate, sometimes shortly hairy. Sepals c. 2-5 mm, subequal, almost free, keeled to the apex, with wide scarious margins, at least the anterior usually shortly hairy. Corolla-tube 1 -5-2 mm, glabrous; lobes c. 2-5 mm, ovate-orbicular, subobtuse or very shortly acuminate. Stamens exserted up to 1 mm. Capsule c. 3 mm; seeds 2, 2-2- 5 mm, cymbiform. In = 8. Dry places. S.E. Spain. Hs. (N. Africa, S. W. Asia.)