Plantago gentianoides, Sibth. & Sm.

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 : 42

18. P. gentianoides Sibth. & Sm. , FI. Graec. Prodr. 1: 101 (1806).

Perennial usually with one rosette. Leaves 2-6(-10) x 1-3-5 cm; lamina ovate to elliptical, subentire or weakly dentate, 3- to 5-(to 7-)veined, glabrous or sparsely (rarely densely) hairy, gradually or abruptly narrowed into a petiole usually c. | as long as lamina, rarely sessile. Scapes much longer than leaves, striate; spikes 1 -3- 5 cm, up to 4 cm in fruit, dense. Bracts c. 2 mm, ovate-orbicular, glabrous, sometimes minutely ciliate. Sepals c. 2 mm, subequal, almost free, glabrous or minutely ciliate, not keeled, usually purplish-brown, with scarious margin. Corolla-tube c. 2 mm, glabrous; lobes 1-1-5 mm, ovate, obtuse. Stamens exserted 3-5 mm; filaments whitish; anthers yellowish. Capsule c. 3 mm; seeds 2-4(-7), 2-2-5 mm, cymbiform. 2« = 12. Damp places in the mountains. C. part of Balkan peninsula’, S. & E. Carpathians. Al Bu Gr Ju Rm.