Papaver recircumscribed: A review of neighbouring Papaveraceae genera, including Afropapaver nom. et stat. nov. and Oreomecon, a large, Arctic-Alpine genus Author Elvebakk, Arve 0000-0002-7682-3797 Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT The Arctic University, PO Box 6050 Langnes, NO- 9037 Tromsø, Norway Author Bjerke, Jarle W. 0000-0003-2721-1492 Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT The Arctic University, PO Box 6050 Langnes, NO- 9037 Tromsø, Norway & Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, FRAM – High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, PO Box 6606 Langnes, NO- 9296 Tromsø, Norway text PhytoKeys 2024 2024-10-29 248 105 188 journal article 10.3897/phytokeys.248.121011 7.5. Papaver sect. Meconidium Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. Phan. 7: 21. 1839 Type species. Papaver armeniacum ( L .) DC. Prodr. 2: 79. 1821. [≡ Argemone armeniaca L ., Sp. pl.: 509. 1753]. Notes. Kadereit (1993) , in his monograph for the section of orange-flowered, biennial species with valvate capsules, accepted four species in addition to five subspecies. In addition, Tavakkoli (2012) and POWO (2023 ) accepted Papaver acrochaetum Bornm. ex Fedde. The species P. sjunicicum M. V. Agab. was described by Aghababyan & Fragman-Sapir (2007) from altitudes above 3200 m in the Zangezura area of Armenia . It was listed as a data-deficient species from Armenia in the Red List treatment for the widely-defined Caucasus Region ( Solomon et al. 2014 ). POWO (2023 ) considers this species a synonym of P. armeniacum subsp. armeniacum ( L .) DC, which is a taxon with several other synonyms that are still widely in use, for example, P. caucasicum M. Bieb. , P. fugax Poir. and P. triniifolium Boiss. Aghababyan & Fragman-Sapir (2007) treated Papaver sjunicicum as different from P. zangezuricum Mikheev , another species from 3500 m alt. in the same area of Armenia , see Mikheev (1993) . The latter species is accepted by POWO (2023 ) and both are accepted here. Papaver shepardii Post ex Dinsm. from southern Türkiye near the border of NW Syria was considered a Critically Endangered ( CR ) species by Cullen (1965) . It is probably identical to P. persicum ssp. tauricola (Boiss.) Kadereit. Papaver shepardii was not mentioned by Kadereit (1993) . It was considered unresolved by Aghababyan (2011 b ) and is not accepted here, although it was so by POWO (2023 ). Our summary thus shows that this section is comprised of seven species and five subspecies.