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Accession Data:

Reinwardtia indica Dumort.

  • Common Name: Yellow Flax, Pyoli
  • Family: Linaceae
  • Synonym(s): R. tetragyna Planch.; R. trigyna (Roxb.) Planch.; Linum trigynum Roxb., not L.]

  • Country of Origin: northern India and China
  • Habitat: Forests, mountain slopes, thickets, often in calcareous soil

  • Description: Glabrous subshrub, to 3 feet; leaves elliptic-ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate or oblong-obovate, mucronate, entire to serrulate; flowers 1-2 inches across, petals united into a tube at base, styles 3-5. sometimes erroneously grown as Linum flavum.

    Native to mountains of northern India and China.

  • USDA Zone: 9-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500178
  • Source: Unknown
  • Recorded Vouchers:
    1. Voucher CONN00124542 at George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN). Specimen collected 6 June 1991. Herbarium Image
    2. Voucher CONN00124543 at George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN). Specimen collected 3 February 1997. Herbarium Image
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1206 - AUS:East Bench NN
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-08-2023

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Malpighiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Linaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • Plants with Vouchers deposited in CONN
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / China Southeast / East Himalaya / India / Nepal / Pakistan / Laos / Myanmar / Thailand / Vietnam

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 26, 2017.
  2. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  3. Reinwardtia indica at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 26, 2017.
  4. Reinwardtia indica in Flora of China. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 26, 2017.

data regenerated on Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:12:03 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Reinwardtia indica

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