Linaceae
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| Linaceae | |
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| Linum pubescens | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Linaceae |
| Genera | |
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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
Genera in subfamily Hugonioideae (Hugoniaceae)
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.
