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
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PhytoKeys
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2024-10-29
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10.3897/phytokeys.248.121011
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
).