PLANTAGOL. - PLANTAINS
Scientific Description:
Annual or perennial terrestrial herbs or dwarf shrubs. Leaves either alternate, forming dense rosettes (when plants acaulescent) or opposite (when plants caulescent), linear to ovate-orbicular. Inflorescence spicate. Flowers 4-merous, protogynous and anemophilous. Sepals imbricate, keeled. Corolla hypocrateriform or rotate. Ovary 2−4-locular, placentation axile; ovules 1−many. Fruit a circumscissile membranous capsule.
Reference:
Tutel B (1982). Plantago L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 505.
Public Description:
Plantago, known as “plantains”, is found all over the world. There are approximately 158 species in the world and 26 species (28 taxa) in Türkiye. The small plants usually have a dense tuft of basal leaves and long, leafless stalks bearing a terminal spike of small flowers. Plantains have been used since prehistoric times as herbal remedies. The herb is astringent, anti-toxic, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-histamine, as well as demulcent, expectorant, styptic and diuretic.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago/,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://global.britannica.com/plant/Plantago/,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Anonymous 3 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Plantaginaceae/Plantago/,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Uzunhisarcıklı EM (2012). Plantago L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 675–677.
