Biology:Cathcartia

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Short description: Genus of Papaveraceae plants

Cathcartia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Subfamily: Papaveroideae
Tribe: Papavereae
Genus: Cathcartia
Hook.f.
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Cumminsia King ex Prain

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]

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Cathcartia Hook.f." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/31632-1. 
  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. 

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