Sclerolinon

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Linaceae
Subfamilia: Linoideae
Genus: Sclerolinon
Species: S. digynum
Name

Sclerolinon C.M.Rogers, Madroño 18: 182. (1966)

monotypic taxon

Note: Possible synonym of Linum L. (Govaerts et al., 2022)
Name

Rogers, C.M. 1966. Madrono; Journal of the California Botanical Society 18: 182.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Sclerolinon in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Mar. 29. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2020. Sclerolinon. 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 June 22. Reference page.
McDill, J.R. & Simpson, B.B. 2011. Molecular phylogenetics of Linaceae with complete generic sampling and data from two plastid genes. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 165(1): 64–83. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01096.x Open access. Academia Open access. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2020. Sclerolinon. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 22 June 2020.
Tropicos.org: Vascular Plants of the Americas: Sclerolinon. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2020 June 22.

Sclerolinon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the flax family containing the single species Sclerolinon digynum, which is known by the common name northwestern yellowflax. It is native to the western United States where it is known from Washington and Idaho through central California; however, it may now be extirpated from Idaho.[1] It grows in seasonally wet habitat such as mountain meadows and vernal pools. This is an annual herb producing a hairless, erect stem up to 20 centimeters tall. The leaves are oval in shape, the upper ones with serrated edges. They are oppositely arranged about the stem and grow erect instead of spreading away from the stem. The inflorescence is a cyme of flowers surrounded by serrated, leaflike bracts. The flower has five yellow petals in a calyx of toothed sepals.

References

Washington State Sensitive Plants