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Plantago palmata

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Identification
Plantago palmata Hook.f. [family PLANTAGINACEAE ]
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  • Plantago palmata

Flora

Entry for PLANTAGO palmata Hook. f. [family PLANTAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 502, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
PLANTAGO palmata Hook. f. [family PLANTAGINACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 19; vii. 213. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 395; Aschers. Bot. Ost-Afr. 74, t. 4.
PLANTAGO Kerstenii Aschers. [family PLANTAGINACEAE], in Sitzb. Gesell. Naturf. Fr. Berl. 1868, 23.
Information
Perennial, acaulescent. Leaves suborbicular, cordate, thin, finely hairy, shallowly, obtusely and irregularly palmately lobed; petiole very long and slender. Peduncle very long. Spike dense, cylindrical, 1–5 in. long; bracts ovate, glabrous, about as long as the calyx. Sepals oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1/12 in. long, with a brown keel and broad white margin. Corolla-lobes lanceolate, acute, nearly as long as the tube. Stamens short. Capsule ovoid, little longer than the calyx. Seeds 2, cymbiform.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 7000 ft., in marshy places, Johnston, 173! Kersten! and without precise locality, Hannington!Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder: at Edda Jesus, near Debra Tabor, 9700 ft., Schimper, 1233!British East Africa Nile Land Mau, 7000–8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6826!Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1962!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Clarence Peak, 7500–8000 ft., Mann, 611!

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