Plantago ovata Forssk.

First published in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 31 (1775)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Spain, N. Africa to India and Somalia, SW. & S. Central U.S.A. to N. Mexico. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Arizona, California, Canary Is., Cyprus, Egypt, Gulf States, India, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Morocco, Nevada, North Caucasus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Texas, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Utah, Western Sahara, Yemen

Introduced into:

China Southeast, Thailand, Xinjiang

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

Flora of Iraq

  • Blakelock in Kew Bull. 3: 442 (1950);
  • Boulos, Fl. Egypt, 3: 210 (2002);
  • Chalabi Ka’bi in Bull. Iraq Nat. Hist. Mus. 1 (2): 18 (1961);
  • Collenette, Wildflow. Saudi Ariabia: 604(1999);
  • Forssk Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 31 (1775);
  • Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4: 707 (1885);
  • Kazmi in Fl. Pak. 62: 14 (1974);
  • Li, Wei & Hoggard in Fl. China 17: 496 (2011).
  • Patzak & Rech. f. in Fl. Iranica 15:15 (1965);
  • Pilger in Engl., Pflanzenr. 102 (IV. 269): 347 (1937);
  • Zohary in Dep. Agr. Iraq Bull. 31: 442 (1950);
  • Zohary pl. 380 (1977);
  • Zohary, Fl. Palaest. 3: 222 (1978)

Publications used to compile the distribution and map:

  • Boulos, L. (2002). Flora of Egypt 3: 1-373. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
  • Collenette, S. (1999). Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia: 1-799. National commission for wildlife conservation and development (NCWCD), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • Danin, A. & Fragman- Sapir, O. (2019). Flora of Israel Online http://flora.org.il/en/plants/.
  • Daoud, H.S. in Al-Rawi, A. (1985). Flora of Kuwait 1: 1-224. Alden Press Ltd., U.K.
  • Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  • Dobignard, A., Jacquemoud, F. & Jordan, D. (1992). Matériaux pour la conaissance floristique du Sahara occidental et l'Anti-Atlas méridional. II. Leguminosae à Compositae. Candollea 47: 397-481.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2019). Flora of North America North of Mexico 17: 1-737. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Jongbloed, M., Western, R.A. & Boer, B. (2000). Annotated Check-list for plants in the U.A.E.: 1-90. Zodiac Publishing, Dubai.
  • Meikle, R.D. (1985). Flora of Cyprus 2: 833-1970. The Bentham-Moxon Trust Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Miller, A.G. & Morris, M. (2004). Ethnoflora of Soqotra Archipelago: 1-759. The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
  • Moran, R. (1996). The flora of Guadalupe island, Mexico. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 19: 1-190.
  • Mosti, S., Raffaelli, M. & Tardelli, M. (2012). Contributions to the flora of central-southern Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman). Webbia; Raccolta de Scritti Botanici 67: 65-91.
  • Musselman, L.J. (2011). Checklist of Plants of Lebanon and Syria http://ww2.odu.edu/~lmusselm/plant/lebsyria/Checklist%20of%20Lebanon%20Plants.pdf.
  • Patzak, A. & Rechinger, K.H. (1965). Flora Iranica 15: 1-23. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz.
  • Santisuk, T. & Larsen, K. (eds.) (2008). Flora of Thailand 9(2): 91-188. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
  • Schischkin, B.K. & al. (eds.) (1954). Flora Turkmenii 6: 1-402. Turkmenskoe gosudarstvennoe izd., Ashkhabad.
  • Singh, M. & Ali, S.J. (2008). A study on aquatic Angiosperms of district Mau (East U.P.). Journal of East African Natural History 32: 877-890.
  • Thulin, M. (ed.) (2006). Flora of Somalia 3: 1-626. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1976). Flora Europaea 4: 1-505. Cambridge University Press.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2011). Flora of China 19: 1-884. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 1976 Trask, B. [s.n.] United States K000190066 Isotype Yes
Jan 1, 1975 Palmer, E. [654] Mexico K000573580 Type Yes
Jan 1, 1975 Kennedy, P.B. [1070] United States K000779654 Unknown Type Material Yes
Cosson, E. Algeria K004925369 No
Sukhorukov, A. [25] Israel K001600662 Yes
Cosson, E. [s.n.] Algeria K004925368 No

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