WorldFloraDB - Plantago asiatica subsp. erosa

Characteristics

A herb which keeps growing from year to year. It has fibrous roots. The leaves are all at the base. The leaves have stalks. The leaves are 2-11 cm long by 0.8-5.5 cm wide. They are oval. The flowers are greenish and in slender spikes. The fruit is a capsule. It has 2 cells. There are 4-8 small black seeds.

More

Leaf blade veins 3(or 5). Spikes usually loosely flowered and interrupted. Sepals 2-2.5 mm, keel extending to apex, apex rounded to obtuse. Corolla lobes (0.7-)1-1.2 mm. Pyxis conic-ovoid, 3-4 mm, with 6-15 seeds. Seeds 1.2-1.7(-2) mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep. 2n = 24.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

anemogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

-

Root system

fibrous-root

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

-

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

A tropical and subtropical plant. In Nepal it grows between 2000-4600 m altitude. It grows on open, moist land. In Yunnan.

Light	-
Soil humidity	-
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The tender leaves are cooked as a vegetable. They are usually stewed or made into soup.

Uses	medicinal
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	Headache (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Demulcent (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified), Impetigo (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Itch (unspecified), Refrigerant (unspecified), Stimulant (unspecified), Suppurative (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Toothache (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Ecthyma (unspecified), Ache(Ear) (unspecified), Alterative (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Eye (unspecified), Piles (unspecified), Skin (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20007836-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000487711
COL ID	8LGJG
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Plantago centralis Plantago erosa Plantago asiatica subsp. erosa

WorldFloraDB 2024

Plantago asiatica subsp. erosa (Wall.) Z.yu Li

Subspecies