(botany) A family of herbaceous or shrubby dicotyledonous plants in the order Linales characterized by mostly capsular fruit, stipulate leaves, and exappendiculate petals.
Linaceae
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a widely distributed family of plants
Synonyms: family Linaceae, flax family
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| Linum pubescens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Linaceae |
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The Linaceae is a family of flowering plants, mostly herbaceous or rarely woody plants, sometimes large trees in the tropics. The simple entire leaves are almost always alternate, sometimes with stipules. The hermaphroditic, actinimorphic flowers are pentameric, or very rarely tetrameric. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 250 species. There are 14 genera, the largest being Linum, the flaxes, with 180-200 species. The genera are classified in two subfamilies, the primarily temperate Linoideae, and the tropical Hugonioideae (sometimes considered a distinct family, the Hugoniaceae).
Genera in subfamily Linoideae
- Anisadenia
- Cliococca
- Hesperolinon
- Linum
- Radiola
- Reinwardtia
- Sclerolinon
- Tirpitzia
Genera in subfamily Hugonioideae (Hugoniaceae)
- Durandea
- Hebepetalum
- Hugonia
- Indorouchera
- Philbornea
- Roucheria
Under the old Cronquist system of classifying the flowering plants, the Linaceae was placed in its own order Linales. Modern classifications place it in the order Malpighiales.
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