Plantago asiatica

車前草

Plantago asiatica L.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

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相關資訊

L., Species Plantarum 1: 113. 1753. (Sp. Pl.)

Plantago formosana Tateishi & Masam.

Tateishi & Masam., Journal of the Society of Tropical Agriculture 4: 192. 1932. (J. Soc. Trop. Agr.)

Hsiao-Ting Wu, Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Dahu Township, Miaoli county. Master thesis. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology . 2007. (Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Dahu Township, Miaoli county.)
Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982. (List Pl. Taiwan)

herb

Perennial herbs, glabrous or nearly so, 10–30 cm tall. Stem stout, a short rhizome with numerous adventitious fibrous roots.
Leaves numerous, in a more or less erect to spreading rossette; petiole 3–16 cm; blade ovate to broadly ovate, rarely oblong, 6–15 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, entire or shallowly dentate.
Scapes to 30 cm long. Spikes solitary, to 10 cm long; bracts ovate to broadly ovate, glabrous, usually shorter than the sepals; Flowers sessile; sepals 4, elliptic, 2–3 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, midrib greenish; corolla tubular, 2.5 mm long, 4-lobed, segments 1 mm long, 0.7 mm wide; stamens 4, exserted from corolla tube and alternate corolla segments, filaments 7 mm long, extending beyond corolla tube; anthers ovate-lanceolate, 1 mm long; pistil 1, 6 mm long, style slender, villose, extending beyond corolla tube; ovary depressed ovoid, 1 mm long, green.
Capsule ovoid, 3.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, brownish at maturity. Seeds 4–6(–10), oblong, concave, 1.5–2.0 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, blackish brown.