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Taxon:  Plantago ovata Forssk.



Summary
Genus:
Plantago
Subgenus:
Psyllium
Section:
Albicans
Family:
Plantaginaceae
Tribe:
Plantagineae
Nomen number:
28790
Place of publication:
Fl. aegypt.-arab. 31. 1775
Verified:
01/07/2003 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2 (2  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Plantago fastigiata E. Morris
Plantago insularis Eastw.
Plantago ispaghul Roxb.
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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
  3. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999-
  4. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1969. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi. 1948-1976 7:148-153.
  5. Cronquist, A. et al. Intermountain flora. 1972- Note: mentions
  6. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
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  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Plantago+ovata&quantity=1
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  11. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
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  24. Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 12(1):402. http://proseanet.org
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Common names
English
blond plantain –
blond psyllium –
blonde ispaghula –
Indian plantago –
Indian plantain –
ispaghul –
ispaghula –
psyllium –
spogel seeds –
Arabic
loqmet el-na'aga –
French
ispaghul –
German
indischer Flohsame –
Portuguese (Brazil)
tanchagem-ovada –
transagem-ovada –
Swedish
vitt loppfrö –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaPortugalMadeira Islands 
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaSpainCanary Islands 
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaAlgeria  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaLibya  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaMorocco  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaTunisia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaKuwait  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaOman  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaSaudi Arabia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTurkmenistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern Asia******  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaAfghanistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaCyprus  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaEgyptSinai 
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIraq  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaJordan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaSyria  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeSpain s.
2Cultivated    also cult.
4NaturalizedNorthern America North America w.
Native
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Turkmenistan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Egypt [Sinai], Iran, Iraq, ******, Jordan, Syria
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Pakistan
Europe
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (s.)
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Northern America
  • REGION: North America (w.)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Medicines
folklore (fide Ency CNatIn; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):402. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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