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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Linaceae

allseed
dwarf-flax
flax
radiola
sclerolinon

Hierarchical position of the Family Linaceae

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Geranianae Thorne ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Linales Baskerville
pub. Aff. Pl.: 107. 1839.
  
   Familia  Linaceae DC. ex Gray
pub. Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 622, 639. 1 Nov 1821.
common name: Flaxes
  

Named members of the Family Linaceae

1
   Genus  Anisadenia Wall. ex Meisn.
2
   Genus  Cliococca Bab.
3
   Genus  Durandea Planch.
4
   Genus  Hebepetalum Benth.
5
   Genus  Hesperolinon (A.Gray) Small
common name: dwarf-flax
6
   Genus  Indorouchera Hallier f.
7
   Subfamilia  Linoideae (DC. ex Gray) Arn.
pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 103. 9 Mar 1832.
  
 
8
   Tribus  Lineae Rchb.
pub. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 2(2): 830, 831. 1832.
  
 
9
   Genus  Linum L.
pub. (1753)
common name: flax
  
10
   Genus  Philbornea Hallier f.
11
   Genus  Radiola Hill
common name: radiola
12
   Genus  Reinwardtia Dumort.
13
   Genus  Roucheria Planch.
14
   Genus  Sclerolinon C.M.Rogers
common name: sclerolinon
15
   Genus  Tirpitzia Hallier f.

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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