{"id":1266036,"date":"2020-05-20T10:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T10:06:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:02:10","slug":"meconopsis-simplicifolia","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/meconopsis-simplicifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Meconopsis simplicifolia subsp. simplicifolia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meconopsis<\/i> simplicifolia<\/i> (D. Don) Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 1: 110 1842<\/em>. (syn: Meconopsis nyingchiensis<\/em> L.H.Zhou; Meconopsis simplicifolia<\/em> var. baileyi<\/i> Kingdon-Ward; Meconopsis uniflora<\/em> Gumbleton; Papaver nyingchiense<\/em> (L.H.Zhou) Christenh. & Byng; Papaver simplicifolium<\/em> D.Don; Polychaetia scapigera<\/em> Wall.; Stylophorum simplicifolium<\/em> (D.Don) Spreng.);\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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C-Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet<\/font> as per Catalogue of Life<\/font><\/a>;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Common name:<\/strong> Common Blue Poppy<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Polycarpic or monocarpic <\/font>erect herbs,<\/font> with yellow fluid, about 25-70 cm tall. Stem simple, clothed with persistent leafy-sheaths at base, covered with pale brown color bristles throughout, about 2-5 mm long. Tap roots stout, slender, elongated. Leaves all basal in rosette, spathulate-oblanceolate, lanceolate-elliptic to oblong, about 4-16 x 1-3.5 cm across, base cuneate or narrow deccurent, margin ciliate, entire or sparingly sinuately lobed, apex obtuse or rounded, weak bristle hairs on both sides, above and beneath, petiole linear, rufous bristly, about 2-20 cm long, upper cauline leaves absent. Flowers bisexual, terminal, solitary, arising singly from the basal pedicels, about 4-8 cm across, pale blue to purple, pedicels usually 1-2 from each rosette, slender, densely covered with bristly weak hairs, about 5-60 cm long, Sepals 2, broadly oblong, apex obtuse, densely bristly, about 2-2.5 x 1-1.2 cm across, petals 5-9, obovate, crenulate, apex rounded or obtuse, blue, purple, about 2.5-5 x 1.5-3 cm across. Stamens numerous, filaments filiform, linear, with bluish showy colors, about 0.8-2 cm long, anthers yellow, basifixed, about 2 mm long. Ovary oblong-ellipsoid, unilocular, densely bristly, style slender, distinct or conspicuous, about 3-10 mm long, stigmas capitates or clavate, free or confluent on decurrent 2-9 lobed. Fruits capsules, ellipsoid-oblong, glabrous or bristly about 3-6 cm long, dehiscing by 4-9 interplacental valves in upper apex part, rarely at the base. Seeds many, reniform, ovoid-ellipsoid, usually papillose, about 3 mm long.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Along streams, grasslands and rocky places of Alpine Eastern Himalayas, altitude 3050-5000 m.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
(Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India.; Kailash, B. R., ATREE, Bangalore, India.; Royal Norwegian Embassy grants. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi as per India Biodiversity Portal<\/font><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Meconopsis simplicifolia from Sikkim<\/a> : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments<\/span> (2<\/font>)<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Meconopsis simplicifolia<\/em> found beyond Tsomgo lake, Sikkim.<\/font><\/div>\n
Found flowering in June.<\/font><\/div>\n

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<\/font>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) POWO<\/a>\u00a0(Papaver simplicifolium<\/strong> D.Don) Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>FOC illustration<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0Bhutan Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0 Wikimedia Commons<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Meconopsis World – A Visual Reference<\/a>\u00a0 The Meconopsis Group<\/a>\u00a0 Alpine Garden Society<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meconopsis simplicifolia (D. Don) Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 1: 110 1842. (syn: Meconopsis nyingchiensis L.H.Zhou; Meconopsis simplicifolia var. baileyi Kingdon-Ward; Meconopsis uniflora Gumbleton; Papaver nyingchiense (L.H.Zhou) Christenh. & Byng; Papaver simplicifolium D.Don; Polychaetia scapigera Wall.; Stylophorum simplicifolium (D.Don) Spreng.);\u00a0\u00a0 C-Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet as per Catalogue of Life; Common name:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6205],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1266036","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-meconopsis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1266036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1266036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1266036"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1266036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}