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Internal ID UUID643ff47838a58360590795
Scientific name Linum narbonense
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 278 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Linum paniculatum Moench Suppl. Meth. : 98 (1802)
Linum barrasii Pau Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 28: 208 (1894)

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Language Common/alternative name
English blue flax
English perennial flax
English flax
Spanish lino azul
Spanish lino de narbona
Spanish lino narbonense
Catalan lli de narbona
Catalan lli blau
Danish fransk hør
Persian کتان آبی
French lin de narbonne
Chinese 那波奈亚麻

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Linum narbonense subsp. barrasii (Pau) Mart.Labarga & Muñoz Garm. Fl. Iber. 9: 191 (2015)
Linum narbonense subsp. narbonense Unknown

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Sow seeds at 20°C, expecting germination within 3 months without further temperature treatment.

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  • Europe
    • Middle Europe
      • Switzerland
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Italy
      • Sicilia
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Baleares
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Spain

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000363269
USDA Plants LINA2
Tropicos 18700023
INPN 106320
Flora of Italy 2862
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:544605-1
The Plant List kew-2347120
Open Tree Of Life 161528
Observations.org 135320
NCBI Taxonomy 544668
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0200002545
IPNI 544605-1
iNaturalist 209478
GBIF 4048802
Freebase /m/0gh7kyf
EPPO LIUNA
Elurikkus 456488
USDA GRIN 22349
Wikipedia Linum_narbonense

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Long-Term Monitoring of the Traditional Knowledge of Plant Species Used for Culinary Purposes in the Valencia Region, South-Eastern Spain Belda A, Jordán-Nuñez J, Micó-Vicent B, López-Rodríguez D Plants (Basel) 08-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10975046
doi:10.3390/plants13060775
PMID:38592810
Ecological drivers of fine-scale distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a semiarid Mediterranean scrubland López-Angulo J, Matesanz S, Illuminati A, Pescador DS, Sánchez AM, Pías B, Chacón-Labella J, de la Cruz M, Escudero A Ann Bot 28-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10457037
doi:10.1093/aob/mcad050
PMID:36976581
Engineering Considerations to Produce Bioactive Compounds from Plant Cell Suspension Culture in Bioreactors Motolinía-Alcántara EA, Castillo-Araiza CO, Rodríguez-Monroy M, Román-Guerrero A, Cruz-Sosa F Plants (Basel) 14-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8707313
doi:10.3390/plants10122762
PMID:34961231
Evaluation and Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis of a New Series of Arylnaphthalene lignans as Potential Anti-Tumor Agents Luo J, Hu Y, Kong W, Yang M PLoS One 27-Mar-2014
PMCID:PMC3968169
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093516
PMID:24675875
Linum narbonense: A new valuable tool for biotechnological production of a potent anticancer lignan Justicidine B Ionkova I, Sasheva P, Ionkov T, Momekov G Pharmacogn Mag 01-Jan-2013
PMCID:PMC3647392
doi:10.4103/0973-1296.108138
PMID:23661992
Traditional Knowledge of Medicinal Plants in the Serra de Mariola Natural Park, South-Eastern Spain Belda A, Zaragozí B, Belda I, Martínez J, Seva E Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med 31-Dec-2012
PMCID:PMC3746577
doi:10.4314/ajtcam.v10i2.15
PMID:24146454

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