Linum elongatum

Description: — Herbs, annual, occasionally perennial, 15 – 30 cm in height, glabrous, root thick; stems erect to ascending, striate, branched from the base, branches diffuse, glabrous. Leaves entire, sometimes glandular, alternate, linear, 5.0 – 25.0 × 0.5 – 1.0 (1.5) mm, sessile, apex acute; 1 - nerved, nervation more evident in the abaxial surface, scariose; glabrous, stipular glands present, sometimes only at the base of distal leaves. Inflorescence a cymose panicle, pedicels 5.2 – 10.4 mm long; bracts 3.2 – 6.3 mm long, margin dentate, apex acuminate, with stipular glands present at the base; sepals deciduous, lanceolate, 6.0 – 11.0 × 1.4 – 1.8 mm, margin glandular-dentate, apex attenuate, 3 - nerved, stipular glands absent; petals yellow-orange to salmon or brownish-red, wine-red base, widely obovate, 14.0 – 18.0 mm long; stamens 5.0 – 6.0 mm long; anthers 1.5 – 2.5 mm long, brick-red; staminodia absent; styles fused to near the apex, 7.0 – 9.5 mm long; stigmata capitate, gray to wine-red. Fruit ovoid, yellow, 4.0 – 4.3 × 3.0 – 3.7 mm, glabrous, pericarp thick, apex obtuse, dehiscent into 5 segments; seeds narrowly elliptical, reddish-brown, 2.3 – 3.0 × 1.2 – 1.3 mm.