Linum
genusAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Linum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation16 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 034 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System2 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Linum (flax) is a genus of approximately 200 speciesLinum. The Jepson Manual.Muravenko, O. V., et al. (2010). Karyogenomics of species of the genus Linum L. Russian Journal of Genetics 46(10), 1182-85. in the flowering plant family Linaceae. They are native to temperate and subtropical regions of the world. The genus includes the common flax (L. usitatissimum), the bast fibre of which is used to produce linen and the seeds to produce linseed oil. Linum narbonense The flowers of most species are blue or yellow, rarely red, white, or pink, and some are heterostylous. There is an average of 6 to 10 seeds per boll. Linum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the cabbage moth, the nutmeg, the setaceous Hebrew character and Coleophora striolatella, which feeds exclusively on Linum narbonense.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Linum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Linum. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
Record type4 038 records
Origin
Range
Depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions97 of 170 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| MAlocation not on record | 243 |
| València, ES | 51 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 48 |
| Saint Louis, US | 36 |
| BClocation not on record | 29 |
| Kew, GB | 27 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 25 |
| Wlocation not on record | 22 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 22 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 21 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 18 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 17 |
| Bronx, US | 17 |
| Berlin, DE | 17 |
| Austin, US | 15 |
| PRClocation not on record | 13 |
| Chengdu, CN | 13 |
| Fort Worth, US | 12 |
| Hobart, AU | 11 |
| Durango, MX | 11 |
| Claremont, US | 11 |
| Sevilla, ES | 10 |
| Emporia, US | 10 |
| Beijing, CN | 10 |
| Uppsala, SE | 9 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 9 |
| Yunnan Universitylocation not on record | 8 |
| Mexico City, MX | 8 |
| LDlocation not on record | 7 |
| Shanghai, CN | 7 |
| Seoul, KR | 7 |
| Barcelona, ES | 7 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Bourges, FR | 6 |
| Jackson, US | 6 |
| Lanzhou, CN | 6 |
| CEPLAClocation not on record | 6 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Blumenau, BR | 6 |
| Cambridge, US | 5 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 5 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO | 5 |
| Armidale, AU | 5 |
| Williamsburg, US | 5 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 5 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 5 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 5 |
| Davis, US | 5 |
| Tianjin Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| Kensington, AU | 5 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 4 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 4 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 4 |
| Arequipa, PE | 4 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 4 |
| Guasave, MX | 4 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (PBZT)location not on record | 3 |
| Bern, CH | 3 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 3 |
| Vitoria, ES | 3 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 3 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| South Kensington, GB | 3 |
| Xining, CN | 3 |
| Lubbock, US | 3 |
| Riverside, US | 3 |
| Stockholm, SE | 3 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 3 |
| Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sullocation not on record | 2 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 2 |
| Miami, US | 2 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Felix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruseslocation not on record | 2 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidade Federal de Santa Catarinalocation not on record | 2 |
| Salamanca, ES | 2 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 2 |
| FUNEDlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| IAPlocation not on record | 2 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 2 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Guilin, CN | 2 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 2 |
| UFSClocation not on record | 2 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 2 |
| Québec, CA | 2 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| EL PASO, US | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 2 |
| ESP003location not on record | 2 |
| TFDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Córdoba, AR | 1 |
| Bureau of Land Management, Caliente Field Officelocation not on record | 1 |
| sonstHerblocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record | 1 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 1 |
| Cenargenlocation not on record | 1 |
| BGBMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Long Beach, US | 1 |
| Adelaide, AU | 1 |
| TADlocation not on record | 1 |
| Granada, ES | 1 |
| Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record | 1 |
| Arusha, TZ | 1 |
| San Isidro, AR | 1 |
| Feira de Santana, BR | 1 |
| Dover, US | 1 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| Córdoba, ES | 1 |
| Linares, MX | 1 |
| xMDC-Clintonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| Universidade de São Paulolocation not on record | 1 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 1 |
| Olocation not on record | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lake Charles, US | 1 |
| Oulu, FI | 1 |
| Tilburg, NL | 1 |
| Wuhan, CN | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| UFSJlocation not on record | 1 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 1 |
| Tartu, EE | 1 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 1 |
| DASSHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| College Park, US | 1 |
| Plocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Nariño (UdeNar)location not on record | 1 |
| Cusco, PE | 1 |
| Durango, US | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| Madison, US | 1 |
| Johnson City, US | 1 |
| Brasília, BR | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 1 |
| Victoria, CA | 1 |
| University of Johannesburglocation not on record | 1 |
| ESALQlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wuhan, CN | 1 |
| Norfolk, US | 1 |
| Tapachula, MX | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Caldwell, US | 1 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Instituto de Ecología Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipaslocation not on record | 1 |
| Arcata, US | 1 |
| Carter County Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Southern Highlands Conservation Programmelocation not on record | 1 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 1 |
| Phoenix, US | 1 |
| New Haven, US | 1 |
| Albuquerque, US | 1 |
| Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 1 |
| UFMSlocation not on record | 1 |
| USP-IBlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 1 |
| Universiti Sains Malaysialocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Linum was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.