Meconopsis Vig.

Elvebakk, Arve & Bjerke, Jarle W., 2024, Papaver recircumscribed: A review of neighbouring Papaveraceae genera, including Afropapaver nom. et stat. nov. and Oreomecon, a large, Arctic-Alpine genus, PhytoKeys 248, pp. 105-188 : 105-188

4. Meconopsis Vig. , Hist. Nat. Pavots: 20. 1814 nom. cons.

Type species

(conserved): Meconopsis regia G. Taylor.

Notes.

Grey-Wilson (2014) treated 76 species, 20 subspecies and three named hybrids. Since then, new species and revised concepts of existing taxa have been published, most of them within the monocarpic sections Racemosae and Forrestianae .

Overall, the genus Meconopsis currently includes 95 species and 21 subspecies. As shown in Fig. 2 , its distribution largely follows the distribution map by Grey-Wilson (2014), but with a small extension into Xinjiang ( China) in the western-most part following the distribution map of Meconopsis aculeata Royle in the same source. The westernmost species are all rare, with M. aculeata Royle as critically endangered in Pakistan ( Majid et al. 2015), M. latifolia Prain as a local endemic and M. neglecta G. Taylor only known from its type collection ( Jafri and Qaiser 2011).

Figures

Figure 2. World distribution of the genera Cathcartia (grey), Meconopsis (sky blue), Oreomecon (yellow) and Roemeria (red). The total distribution of Oreomecon is divided into eight geographical areas (A – H) both on the map and in the textual treatment. Area E consists of two almost equally large subareas, while area H consists of one main subarea and four much smaller subareas (see arrows). Note also that the total distribution of Cathcartia consists of four different subareas. See Table 1 for the numbers of species and subspecies per genus and for each of the subareas of Oreomecon.