Linnaea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Dipsacales

Familia: Caprifoliaceae
Subfamilia: Linnaeoideae
Genus: Linnaea
Species: Linnaea borealis
Name

Linnaea L., Sp. Pl. 2: 631. (1753)

monotypic taxon

Synonyms

Homotypic
Linnaea subg. Eulinnaea Graebn., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 134 (1900).
Linnea Neck., Elem. Bot. 1: 378 (1790), nom. inval.
Linneusia Raf., Med. Fl. 2: 239 (1830) [1], nom. illeg.
Obolaria Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 275 (1891), nom. illeg. non L. (1753)
Heterotypic
Linnaea sect. Erythrochromae Wittr., Acta Horti Berg. 4(7): 72 (1907).
Linnaea sect. Mesochromae Wittr., Acta Horti Berg. 4(7): 72 (1907).
Linnaea sect. Polychromae Wittr., Acta Horti Berg. 4(7): 71 (1907).
Linnaea sect. Xanthochromae Wittr., Acta Horti Berg. 4(7): 72 (1907).

Note: This is a traditional view of a monotypic Linnaea rejecting the proposal by Christenhusz (2013) to subsume all genera of Linnaeoideae into this genus. Wang et al. (2015) point out that Linnaeoideae, as circumscribed here, is composed of monophyletic units, which are best kept segregated on the grounds of morphology, biogeography and nomemclatural stability (Govaerts, 2020 cf. Hassler, 2020).
References

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus II: 631. Reference page.
Gronovius, J.F. 1727.in Linnaeus, C. Genera Plantarum 188.
Christenhusz, M.J.M. 2013. Twins are not alone: a recircumscription of Linnaea (Caprifoliaceae). Phytotaxa 125(1): 25–32. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.125.1.4 PDF Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Linnaea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb. 9. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2020. Linnaea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb. 9. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Linnaea. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 16 2019.
Landrein, S. & Prenner, G. 2013. Unequal twins? Inflorescence evolution in the twinflower tribe Linnaeeae (Caprifoliaceae sl). International Journal of Plant Sciences 174(2): 200–233. DOI: 10.1086/668251 ResearchGate Reference page.
Wang, H.-F., Landrein, S., Dong, W.-P., Nie, Z.-L., Kondo, K., Funamoto, T., Wen, J. & Zhou, S.-L. 2015. Molecular phylogeny and biogeographic diversification of Linnaeoideae (Caprifoliaceae s.l.) disjunctly distributed in Eurasia, North America and Mexico. PLoS ONE 10(3, e0116485): 1–26. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116485 Open access Reference page.
Wittrock, V.B. 1907. Linnæa borealis L., species polymorpha et polychroma. Linnæa borealis L., en mångformig art. Acta Horti Bergiani 4(7): 1–187. BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names
dansk: Almindelig Linnæa
Deutsch: Moosglöckchen
English: Twinflower
eesti: Harakkuljus
suomi: Vanamot
français: Linnée boréale
Frysk: Linnaeusklokje
Nederlands: Linnaeusklokje
norsk nynorsk: Linnea
norsk: Linnea
polski: Zimoziół
português: Linnaea
русский: Линнея
davvisámegiella: Vándádivga
svenska: Linneasläktet
Tiếng Việt: Hoa kép