IUCN Status
: Not Applicable
Author: Ankit jangir
Ankit Jangir is an explorer and field botanist, currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Botany from Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. He completed his M.Sc. from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, with a strong focus on plant taxonomy and biodiversity documentation.
- Herbs
- Sikar, Rajasthan
- Cultivated
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Plantago ovata is a annual herb with the height of about 25- 40 cm. leaves are linear or linear to lanceolate, attenuated at the base. a well developed tap root system is found. A number of flowering shoots arise from the base of the plant. The flower spikes turn brown- reddish at ripening. flowers are numerous, small and white to creamy coloured. The fruit is a small pyxidium covered by the persistent corolla and enclosed in capsules that open at maturity.
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Plantago ovata
Plant body in vegetative and flowering state. -
Plantago ovata
distribution of Plantago ovata in semi-arid region of rajasthan.
Plantago ovata is a highly economic crop, which is cultivated in arid and semi-arid regions of rajasthan through out the winter season. the picture shows the cultivated landscape of Plantago ovata with scattered distribution of Prosopis cineraria( Khejri).