![Download this record Download](/_content/Biota.Portals.Web.Shared/images/icons/download-icon-48.png)
![Copy a link to this page Copy a link to this page](/_content/Biota.Portals.Web.Shared/images/icons/share-icon-48.png)
![Cite this record Cite this record](/_content/Biota.Portals.Web.Shared/images/icons/cite-icon-48.png)
Papaver L.
![Names_Plants record source Names_Plants record source](/_content/Biota.Portals.Web.Shared/images/icons/plant-icon-48.png)
Details
Biostatus
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1753
506
ICN
Papaver L.
genus
Papaver
Classification
Subordinates
Vernacular names
Descriptions
Papaver L.
Annual herbs or root perennials, with white or coloured latex. Lvs simple and toothed to pinnatifid to 2-pinnatisect, glabrous or hispid, glaucous or green. Fls solitary or in lax leafy cymes; buds usually drooping. Sepals 2, entire, free, falling as fl. opens, not horned. Petals 4-(6), crumpled in bud, orange to red, sometimes lilac or white. Stigma lobes 4-18, forming a broad sessile stigmatic disc. Capsule ovate, clavate, orbicular or oblong, opening by pore-like valves just below stigmatic disc. Seeds reniform or comma-shaped, without aril.
Taxonomic concepts
Collections
Metadata
d15e8336-c814-4038-9bad-271bad9652f4
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
4 February 2014