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 (much more frequently so in the tropics). The family is cosmopolitan, with some 250 species. There are eight genera, the largest being Linum, the flaxes, with 180-200 species.

Genera

Anisadenia
Cliococca
Hesperolinon
Linum
Radiola
Reinwardtia
Sclerolinon
Tirpitzia

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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