Taxon: Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz

See also subordinate taxa:

• Camelina sativa var. glabrata (no accessions)

Common names:

• big-seed false flax   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• false flax   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• German-sesame   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• gold-of-pleasure   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• ya ma ji   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• caméline   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• caméline ciliée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• lin bâtard   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• sesame d'Allemagne   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• Leindotter   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• camellina   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• dorella   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• drodetta   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• nagami-no-ama-nazuna   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• camelina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• ryžik   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• camelina pilosa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• oljedådra   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: potential as oil/fat   (fide Havel 1995)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (seeds used in the birdseed trade fide Mabberleys Pl Book)
  
• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide Amer J Pl SciBiotech 1:7. 2007)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of Abyssinian cabbage   (based on protoplast fusion with Brassica carinata fide Pl Cell Reps 13:658, 660. 1994)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey [n.w.]
  Caucasus: Armenia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Switzerland
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  China: China - Nei Monggol, Xinjiang [n.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu; Korea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; Norway
  Middle Europe: Poland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Romania
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - District of Columbia, South Carolina, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Cordoba, La Pampa, Santa Fe; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Poland
  East Europe: Ukraine

• exact native range in Asia obscure

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Havel, J. 1995. Rosliny Oleiste. 16:83–90.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Johnson, J. M.-F. et al. 2007. Biomass-bioenergy crops in the United States: A changing paradigm. Amer. J. Pl. Sci. Biotechnol. 1:7.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Mabberley, D. J. 2008. Mabberley's plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses, third edition. 142. [re. use as birdseed].
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:87.
• Narasimhulu, S. B. et al. 1994. Intergeneric protoplast fusion between Brassica carinata and Camelina sativa. Pl. Cell Rep. 13:657?660.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Tayler, R. S. 1989. New crops for food and industry. 191.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Warwick, S. I. et al. 2009. PART III. Interspecific and intergeneric hybridization data. In: Warwick, S.I. et al., Guide to wild germplasm of Brassica and allied crops (Tribe Brassiceae, Brassicaceae), ed. 3 (on-line resource). 1–91.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Camelina sativa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Camelina sativa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Camelina sativa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Camelina glabrata (DC.) Fritsch ex N. W. Zinger
  
• (=) Camelina parodii Ibarra & La Porte
  
• (=) Camelina pilosa (DC.) Vassilcz.
  
• (=) Camelina sativa subsp. pilosa (DC.) N. W. Zinger
  
• (=) Camelina sativa var. pilosa DC.
  
• (≡) Camelina sativa subsp. sativa
  
• (≡) Myagrum sativum L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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