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LINUM L. [family LINACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1966) Author: Doreen L. Smith
Names
LINUM L. [family LINACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 277 (1753) & Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 135 (1754)
Information
Perennial or annual herbs, often woody at the base. Leaves sessile, alternate, opposite or whorled, entire or with shortly denticulate margin. Stipules glandular, persistent, or absent. Inflorescence a terminal monochasial or dichasial cyme, or rarely flowers solitary. Sepals 4–5, entire or with capitate-glandular serrate margin, free, persistent. Petals 4–5, white,, yellow, blue, pink or red, free or very rarely united at base, shortly clawed. Stamens 4–5, alternating with petals; staminodes occasionally present, 4–5, filiform and between the stamens, all joined at base forming a short staminal tube. Ovary 4–5-locular; each loculus partly divided by a false septum and containing two pendulous ovules. Styles 4–5, free or rarely united at base; stigmas linear, oblong or capitate. Fruit a 4–5-locular, 8–10-valved capsule. Seeds smooth and flat, with little or no endosperm present; testa becoming mucilaginous on wetting; embryo straight.
Range
About 230 species, mainly in north temperate regions, especially abundant in North America and the Mediterranean area; also in the tropics at high altitudes.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1966) Author: Doreen L. Smith
Names
LINUM L. [family LINACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 277 (1753) & Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 135 (1754)
Information
Perennial or annual herbs, often woody at the base. Leaves sessile, alternate, opposite or whorled, entire or with shortly denticulate margin. Stipules glandular, persistent, or absent. Inflorescence a terminal monochasial or dichasial cyme, or rarely flowers solitary. Sepals 4–5, entire or with capitate-glandular serrate margin, free, persistent. Petals 4–5, white,, yellow, blue, pink or red, free or very rarely united at base, shortly clawed. Stamens 4–5, alternating with petals; staminodes occasionally present, 4–5, filiform and between the stamens, all joined at base forming a short staminal tube. Ovary 4–5-locular; each loculus partly divided by a false septum and containing two pendulous ovules. Styles 4–5, free or rarely united at base; stigmas linear, oblong or capitate. Fruit a 4–5-locular, 8–10-valved capsule. Seeds smooth and flat, with little or no endosperm present; testa becoming mucilaginous on wetting; embryo straight.
Range
About 230 species, mainly in north temperate regions, especially abundant in North America and the Mediterranean area; also in the tropics at high altitudes.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1966) Author: Doreen L. Smith
Names
LINUM L. [family LINACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 277 (1753) & Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 135 (1754)
Information
Perennial or annual herbs, often woody at the base. Leaves sessile, alternate, opposite or whorled, entire or with shortly denticulate margin. Stipules glandular, persistent, or absent. Inflorescence a terminal monochasial or dichasial cyme, or rarely flowers solitary. Sepals 4–5, entire or with capitate-glandular serrate margin, free, persistent. Petals 4–5, white,, yellow, blue, pink or red, free or very rarely united at base, shortly clawed. Stamens 4–5, alternating with petals; staminodes occasionally present, 4–5, filiform and between the stamens, all joined at base forming a short staminal tube. Ovary 4–5-locular; each loculus partly divided by a false septum and containing two pendulous ovules. Styles 4–5, free or rarely united at base; stigmas linear, oblong or capitate. Fruit a 4–5-locular, 8–10-valved capsule. Seeds smooth and flat, with little or no endosperm present; testa becoming mucilaginous on wetting; embryo straight.
Range
About 230 species, mainly in north temperate regions, especially abundant in North America and the Mediterranean area; also in the tropics at high altitudes.
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