Plantago squarrosa, Murray

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31. P. squarrosa Murray , Comment. Gotting. 4 (Cl. Phys.): 38 (1782).

Annual; stems 2-25 cm, decumbent or ascending, usually with patent, flexuous branches as long as the main stem, more or less scabrid-puberulent with deflexed hairs, eglandular. Leaves 0-5-2 x 0-1-0-2 cm, linear, fleshy. Peduncles 1-5 cm; spikes 0-5-1 -5 cm. Lowest 2 bracts 7-12 mm, herbaceous or with very narrow scarious margins, lanceolate-caudate, recurved, with divergent lateral veins at base; upper bracts 3-4 mm, obovateoblong. Sepals unequal, the anterior like the upper bracts, the posterior 2-5-3 mm, ovate. Corolla-tube 3 -5-4 mm; lobes c. 2 mm, ovate, acute. Capsule 2-2-5 mm; seeds c. 1 -75 mm, cymbiform, ovate-elliptical in outline. Dry, usually sandy places. Aegean region. Cr Gr.