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  Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany
The Papaveraceae are herbs or rarely shrubs or trees comprising 25 genera and 200 species that usually have milky or colored sap.
The calyx consists of 2 or 3 distinct or rarely completely connate sepals that are usually torn off the receptacle as the bud opens.
Note the two sepals being lifted off the receptacle by the expansion of the crumpled petals.
www.botany.hawaii.edu /faculty/carr/papaver.htm   (205 words)

  
  Papaveraceae/Hoot
Papaveraceae are primarily a north temperate, mostly herbaceous family consisting of 23 genera and ca.
Unique characteristics of the family that separate it from other members of the Ranunculales are a paracarpous gynoecium and the presence of secretory idioblasts or laticifers.
The phylogeny of the Papaveraceae s.l.: Morphological, geographical and ecological implications.
www.uwm.edu /People/hoot/papav.html   (342 words)

  
 Papaveraceae
The Papaveraceae occurs primarily in the northern hemisphere, but is also found in southern Africa and eastern Australia.
Members of the Papaveraceae are herbaceous or softly woody plants in which the stems may have several rings of vascular bundles.
The most famous member of the family is probably the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum; the latex of other species does not, so far as I know, have the narcotic properties found in the latex of the opium poppy.
herbarium.usu.edu /taxa/papaveraceae.htm   (318 words)

  
 Papaveraceae -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Papaveraceae, or Poppy family, is a family from the order (Herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae) Ranunculales.
It comprises 23 (Click link for more info and facts about genera) genera and about 200 ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species.
Sanguinaria : (Perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant) Bloodroot
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/papaveraceae.htm   (629 words)

  
 Papaveraceae --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The order is composed of about 600 species in two families, Papaveraceae and Fumariaceae.
Its most familiar flowers are the poppy (q.v.) of the Papaveraceae and the bleeding heart (q.v.) of the Fumariaceae.
genus of about 45 species of herbaceous plants of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) native to Eurasia, several of which are grown for their poppylike flowers.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9058322   (465 words)

  
 Comparative analysis of leaf shape development in Eschscholzia californica and other Papaveraceae-Eschscholzioideae -- ...
Papaveraceae and is probably due to selective suppression of
Ernst W. 1962 A comparative morphology of the Papaveraceae.
Gourlay C. Hofer T. Ellis 2000 Pea compound leaf architecture is regulated by interactions among the genes Unifoliata, Cochleata, Afila, and Tendril-less.
www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/91/3/306   (3680 words)

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