Cathcartia

<i>Cathcartia</i>

Cathcartia

Genus of Papaveraceae plants

Cathcartia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to China, Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, and northern Myanmar.[1] Chloroplast DNA evidence supports a split of Cathcartia from the blue poppy genus Meconopsis in an effort to resolve longstanding taxonomic difficulties in the Himalayan poppies.[2]

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Species

The following species are accepted:[1]

  • Cathcartia chelidoniifolia (Bureau & Franch.) Grey-Wilson
  • Cathcartia oliveriana (Franch. ex Prain) Grey-Wilson
  • Cathcartia smithiana Hand.-Mazz.
  • Cathcartia villosa Hook.f.

References

  1. [1]
    "Cathcartia Hook.f." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  2. [2]
    Xiao, Wei; Simpson, Beryl B. (2017). "A New Infrageneric Classification of Meconopsis (Papaveraceae) Based on a Well-supported Molecular Phylogeny". Systematic Botany. 42 (2): 226–233. doi:10.1600/036364417X695466. S2CID 91152469.


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