meconopsis plants - GARDENING
Abstract: Understanding the potential habitat of Meconopsis, their species richness distribution patterns, and their influencing factors are critical for the conservation and rational exploitation of this valuable resource. In the present study, we reconstructed the evolutionary history of Meconopsis utilizing four chloroplast markers (rbcL, matK, ndhF and the trnL-trnF intergenic spacer) and the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nrITS). Population assessment of Meconopsis, in-situ and ex-situ conservation, habitat protection, bio-prospecting of Meconopsis species and climate change mitigation and management measures are immediately required for conservation of diversity of this amazing Blue poppy (Meconopsi) taxa in the IHR.
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reatments of Meconopsis have been produced this century by Prain (1906), Fedde (1909. and Taylor (1934). Taylor's classification is followed in this account and Table 1 shows it in outline. The present study was undertaken to determine the chromosome numbers of the species in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edi.
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Following the rediscovery and revision of Meconopsis psilonomma Farrer (Yoshida and Sun, 2017), the taxonomy of species related to it in northern Sichuan and adjacent southeastern Qinghai are subject to review. Meconopsis biluoensis, a new species of Papaveraceae in an alpine meadow from Yunnan, Southwest China, is described and illustrated. Morphologically, it resembles Meconopsis georgei, while it is distinct in acaulescent and hispid with clearly expanded bases on the leaves. This study aimed to (1) elucidate the phylogenetic relationships between Meconopsis and its close relatives and (2) provide a proposal for the taxonomic treatment for Asian Meconopsis.