Herbarium specimen: Plantago major subsp. major
| Taxon: | Plantaginaceae: Plantago major subsp. major |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Plantaginaceae: Plantago major subsp. major |
| Collected by: | Dr Henry Halcro Johnston |
| Collection date: | 4/8/1934 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC111 Orkney, Westray, HY4838, east side of Wart Holm, off the south-west corner of Westray. Natural stony grassy pasture at seashore., (altitude 10ft) |
| Institution: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K) |
| Accession number: | K001013315 |
| Image: © Kew |  |
| collector's number: | 4963 |
| notes: | Plantago major L. var. intermedia (Gilib.) Decne. forma minor (Gilib.) Pilger. [= Plantago minor Gilib.; Plantago minima De Candolle; and, in "The London Catalogue of British Plants," 11th edn. (1925), No. 1610 Plantago major L. var. f. minima De Candolle]. (Fide Edmund Gilbert Baker, who, on 16th November 1938, saw four other plants of my Record No. 4963 at the British Museum (Natural History), London. Popular English Name: A variety of way-bread. Native. Common. Plants in unripe fruit, and sparingly in flower-bud and flower. A new record for this variety in H.C. Watson's county No. 111 Orkney, discovered by me (Henry Halcro Johnston) on 4th August 1938 [sic]. Plants ¼-¾ inch high. Leaves elliptic-ovate, coarsely dentate, 3-veined, with short broad stalks, pubescent more or less above, glabrous beneath. Scape ¼-¾ inch long (including the total length of both the stalk and spike), arcuate ascending, pubescent; spike ¼-½ inch long, oblong cylindrical; bracts and sepals ovate-acute or obtuse, green, with broad whitish margins and apex, and the bracts and sepals are not keeled. 3 specimens included |
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