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Linaceae

Linaceae DC. ex Perleb, Vers. Arzneikr. Pfl.: 107 (1818), nom. cons.

Hugoniaceae Arn. (1834).

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Flowering Plants. Eudicots

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 11))

Abstract

Herbs, shrubs, trees, or lianas, sometimes with climbing hooks. Leaves alternate (more rarely opposite or whorled), sometimes distichous, simple, sessile or petiolate, the lamina usually involute; stipules present or reduced, sometimes dentate or incised. Inflorescences terminal or axillary thyrsoids or botryoids, exceptionally flowers solitary. Flowers perfect, actinomorphic, 5(4)-merous; sepals quincuncially imbricate, distinct or connate at the very base, sometimes persistent; petals usually contorted, often clawed, distinct or almost so, usually caducous; stamens usually twice the number of petals or antesepalous stamens and staminodia [these sometimes reduced] as many as petals, connate at base, usually with glands outside the tube; ovary superior, (2)3–5(–8)-carpellate; ovules 2 per carpel, sometimes more, anatropous, epitropous; locules sometimes divided into 2 one-seeded portions by complete or incomplete false septae; stylodia as many as carpels, usually distinct; stigma capitate to filiform. Fruit a septicidal capsule, sometimes schizocarpic or a drupe. Seeds sometimes arillate; seed coat often mucilaginous; endosperm usually scanty, sometimes copious; embryo straight or slightly curved.

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Dressler, S., Repplinger, M., Bayer, C. (2014). Linaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants. Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39417-1_16

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