caa a22 4500 445358890 CHVBK 20180317142909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00334-011-0311-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00334-011-0311-5 Historical and botanical evidence of distribution, cultivation and utilization of Linum usitatissimum L. (flax) in China [Elektronische Daten] [Fei-Hu Liu, Xia Chen, Bo Long, Rui-Yan Shuai, Chun-Lin Long] Linum usitatissimum L. (flax) has been cultivated for more than 2,000years in China. Throughout the history of its cultivation, flax was mainly used for oil and medicine. It was not until the last 100years that fibre flax began to be cultivated and used. This paper discusses the distribution, cultivation and use of flax in China especially in the past, based on literature reviews and ethnobotanical surveys for its traditional uses. The modern distribution of wild flax species in China is also presented in this paper. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Ancient China nationallicence Flax nationallicence Cultivation nationallicence Linum usitatissimum nationallicence Medicines nationallicence Oil nationallicence Liu Fei-Hu School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut Chen Xia School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut Long Bo School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut Shuai Rui-Yan School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut Long Chun-Lin Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, 650204, Kunming, China aut Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/6(2011-11-01), 561-566 0939-6314 20:6<561 2011 20 334 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0311-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0311-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liu Fei-Hu School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chen Xia School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Long Bo School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shuai Rui-Yan School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Lake Road, 650091, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Long Chun-Lin Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, 650204, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/6(2011-11-01), 561-566 0939-6314 20:6<561 2011 20 334 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer