Taxon: Linum usitatissimum L.

Common names:

• flax   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• linseed   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• lin   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Flachs   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• Saatlein   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• linhaça   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  
• linho   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• lino   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• kitani   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Swahili
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: gelling agent; stabilizer   (fide PROTABASE)
  
• Human food: oil/fat; seeds   (fide F USSR; Pl Book; PROTABASE)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (seed cakes & chaff fide F USSR; Pl Book)
  
• Materials: fiber; lipids   (fide Genet Res Crop Evol 42:263. 1995)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Dict Econ Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

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View toxicology references for Linum usitatissimum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Rogers, C. M. 1984. Linaceae. In: Britton, N. L. et al., eds. ser. 1; C. T. Rogerson, ed. ser. 2, North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 (N Amer fl) ser. 2, 12:7.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Linum usitatissimum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Linum usitatissimum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Linum crepitans (Boenn.) Dumort.
  
• (=) Linum humile Mill.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Linum usitatissimum var. humile (Mill.) Pers.
  
• (=) Linum usitatissimum subsp. transitorium Vavilov & Elladi
  

Check other databases for Linum usitatissimum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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