Meconopsis sect. Grandes (Prain.) Fedde, Engl.

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4.4. Meconopsis sect. Grandes (Prain.) Fedde, Engl. , Pflanzenr. 4, 104: 262. 1909

Type species.

Meconopsis grandis Prain.

Notes.

Grey-Wilson (2014) included four conspicuously yellow species in Section Grandes (Prain) Fedde. Subsequently , two additional species were added to the section; one is the new species, M. wanbaensis Tosh. Yoshida ( Yoshida 2019) , the other is the recombined M. uniflora (C. Y. Wu & H. Chuang) Tosh. Yoshida et al. ( Yoshida et al. 2019) . Whereas almost all Meconopsis species described after the publication of the monograph by Grey-Wilson (2014) are monocarpic and, in the case of the Forrestianae and Impeditae , rather small plants, one large and blue perennial poppy has also been described. This is M. gakyidiana Tosh. Yoshida et al. , the famous blue poppy of Bhutan, which is also the country’s national flower ( Yoshida et al. 2016 b). It has remained in cultivation since George Forrest’s introduction in the 1930 s, partly under various cultivar names ( Grey-Wilson 2017), partly as M. grandis subsp. orientalis Grey-Wilson , until the latter was raised to species level under the name referring to Bhutan’s “ gakyid ” concept of national happiness.