Flora of the Southeastern United States
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LINNAEACEAE

Linnaea Linnaeus. Twinflower.

A monotypic genus, a trailing weak shrub, circumboreal. Generic circumscription has been controversial, with a radical lumping proposed by Christenhusz (2013), but not widely supported (Wang et al. 2015, and others).

Ref: Christenhusz (2013); Hofmann & Bittrich (2016) In Kadereit & Bittrich (2016); Wang et al. (2015); Zika & Tucker (2017). Show full citations.

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