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Papaver L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
506
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Papaver L.
genus
Papaver

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Papaver

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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.

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Papaver L.
Papaver
Papaver L.
Papaver L.
Papaver
Papaver L.

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Papaver L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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d15e8336-c814-4038-9bad-271bad9652f4
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
4 February 2014
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