Plantago is a cosmopolitan genus including over 250 species, concentrated in temperate
and high-elevation tropical regions. The taxonomy of Plantago is very difficult, mainly …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Plantago australis is a perennial plant widely distributed in
Latin America, and its seeds and leaves are used in folk medicine to treat many diseases …

The pollen and foliar epidermal morphological features are mostly used in resolving the
taxonomic issue of flowering plant families. This study aimed to investigate, the comparative …

Plantago sect. Coronopus contains our two focal species (P. coronopus L., P. crassifolia
Forssk.), both with an overall conspicuous bi‐hemispheric distribution range (Mediterranean …

We present taxonomic and geographic novelties in the genus Plantago from Chile. More
specifically, we describe P. nebularis, a new species endemic to Cerro Moreno, Antofagasta …

This article presents and describes Plantago humboldtiana, an extremely narrow endemic
rheophytic new species from a waterfall in Corupá, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil …

Evidence is presented that the records of Plantago virginica from South Africa and of P.
australis from Réunion Island (France) are in fact misidentified specimens of P. tomentosa …

This article describes Plantago hatschbachiana, a narrowly-endemic new species from
sandstone grasslands in Brazil. Specimens of this species were until now being identified as …

Plantago subg. Coronopus is a mainly Mediterranean group of plantains whose taxonomy is
very complex. Two Linnaean names within this subgenus still remain untypified: P. serraria …

A series of nomenclatural and taxonomic misunderstandings have surrounded the montane
Indo-Iranian species in Plantago subgenus Plantago. This work has the objective of …