Plant Details

Accepted name:: Linum usitatissimum var. usitatissimum [Linaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Linum usitatissimum L.
Infraspecies:: Linum usitatissimum var. stenophyllum (Boiss.) Rech.f.

No non-scientific names for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 46 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Linum sativum Hasselq. Iter Palaest.: 462 (1757).
Linum usitatissimum var. vulgare Boenn. Prodr. Fl. Monast. Westphal.: 94 (1824).
Linum angustifolium subsp. humile (Mill.) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur.: 125 (1878), nom. illeg.
Linum arvense Neck. Delic. Gallo-Belg.: 159 (1768).
Linum crepitans (Boenn.) Dumort. Fl. Belg.: 111 (1827).
Linum dehiscens subsp. crepitans (Boenn.) Vavilov & Elladi Kul't. Fl. SSSR 5(1): 113, 115 (1940), not validly publ.
Linum grandiflorum Rchb. Iconogr. Bot. Pl. Crit. 4: 8 (1826), not validly publ.
Linum humile Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 2 (1768).
Linum humile f. coimbricum Elladi ex Rothm. Agron. Lusit. 6: 255, 257 (1944), not validly publ.
Linum humile subsp. crepitans (Boenn.) Rothm. Agron. Lusit. 6: 255, 256 (1944).
Linum humile subsp. transiens Elladi ex Rothm. Agron. Lusit. 6: 255, 257 (1944).
Linum humile f. vaccaeorum Elladi ex Rothm. Agron. Lusit. 6: 255, 257 (1944), not validly publ.
Linum indehiscens (Neilr.) Vavilov & Elladi in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 5(1): 117 (1940).
Linum indehiscens proles brevimulticaulia Vavilov & Elladi in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 5(1): 162 (1940), not validly publ.
Linum indehiscens proles elongatum Vavilov & Elladi in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 5(1): 153 (1940), not validly publ.
Linum indehiscens convar. elongatum Kulpa & Danert Kulturpflanze 3: 374 (1962).
Linum monadelphum Mart. Pl. Hort. Erlang.: 84 (1814).
Linum monadelphum Rchb. Iconogr. Bot. Pl. Crit. 4: 8 (1826).
Linum moroderorum Pau Ann. Sci. Acad. Polytecn. Porto 6: 3 (1911).
Linum mucronatum Gilib. Fl. Lit. Inch. 2: 143 (1782), opus utique oppr.
Linum reuteri Boiss. & Hausskn. in P.E.Boissier, Fl. Orient., Suppl.: 139 (1888).
Linum trinervium B.Heyne ex Roth Nov. Pl. Sp.: 187 (1821).
Linum usitatissimum var. arvense Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum var. coeruleum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum subsp. crepitans (Boenn.) Schübl. & G.Martens Fl. Würtemberg: 211 (1834).
Linum usitatissimum convar. crepitans (Boenn.) Kulpa & Danert Kulturpflanze 3: 374 (1962).
Linum usitatissimum var. crepitans Boenn. Prodr. Fl. Monast. Westphal.: 94 (1824).
Linum usitatissimum var. flavescens Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum var. glabriseptum Rothm. Agron. Lusit. 6: 258 (1944), not validly publ.
Linum usitatissimum var. grandiflorum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum var. hassiacum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum var. hirsutiseptum Rothm. Agron. Lusit. 6: 258 (1944), not validly publ.
Linum usitatissimum subsp. humile (Mill.) Chernom. Sborn. Nauchn. Trudov Prikl. Bot. Genet. Selekts. 113: 56 (1987).
Linum usitatissimum var. humile (Mill.) Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 334 (1805).
Linum usitatissimum var. indehiscens Neilr. Fl. Nied.-Oesterr.: 864 (1859).
Linum usitatissimum subsp. intermedium Chernom. Sborn. Nauchn. Trudov Prikl. Bot. Genet. Selekts. 113: 60 (1987).
Linum usitatissimum subsp. latifolium Stank. Sborn. Nauchn. Trudov Prikl. Bot. Genet. Selekts. 113: 59 (1987), given basionym non-existent.
Linum usitatissimum var. macrocarpum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum var. majus Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum subsp. mediterraneum Vavilov & Elladi Kul't. Fl. SSSR 5(1): 147, 174 (1940), not validly publ.
Linum usitatissimum var. parviflorum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum var. regale Alef. Landw. Fl.: 103 (1866).
Linum usitatissimum var. reuteri (Boiss. & Hausskn.) P.H.Davis Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 22: 139 (1957).
Linum usitatissimum var. sativum (Hasselq.) Pohl Tent. Fl. Bohem. 1: 299 (1809).
Linum usitatissimum subsp. vulgare (Boenn.) Schübl. & G.Martens Fl. Würtemberg: 211, 672 (1834).
Linum utile Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 177 (1796).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Linum sativum L.	Med. Herbs Israel (Said et al., 2002)
Linum usitatissimum L. var. vulgare Boenn.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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