Stylomecon

G. Taylor

J. Bot. 68: 140. 1930.

Common names: Wind-poppy
Etymology: Greek stylos, style, and mekon, poppy
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA03 P63 Roemeria Romneya Stylomecon pg 335.jpegRomneya coulteri
Stylomecon heterophylla
Roemeria refracta
John Myers
John Myers
John Myers

Herbs, annual; sap yellow, clear. Stems simple or branching, leafy. Leaves alternate, usually petiolate; blade 1-2× pinnately deeply lobed. Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered; peduncle slender; bud drooping. Flowers: sepals 2, distinct; petals caducous, 4, obcuneate; stamens many; pistil 4-11-carpellate; ovary turbinate, 1-locular; style persistent; stigma 4-11-lobed. Fruits capsular, obovoid-ellipsoid to turbinate, ribbed, dehiscing by flaps beneath apex. Seeds many, brown or black, reniform, reticulate-rugose, aril absent. x = 28.

Distribution

Calif., nw Mexico

Discussion

Species 1 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

... more about "Stylomecon"
Curtis Clark +
G. Taylor +
palmate +  and subpalmate +
Wind-poppy +
Calif. +  and nw Mexico +
Greek stylos, style, and mekon, poppy +
sessile +, pedicellate +  and symmetric +
obovoid-ellipsoid;turbinate +
paniculate +  and racemose +
cauline +  and basal +
1-2-locular or +  and incompletely completely multilocular +
turbinate +
distinct +
obcuneate +
2 times number of sepals +
4-11-carpellate +
clear +  and yellow +
carunculate +  and arillate +
black +  and brown +
reticulate-rugose +
reniform +
distinct +
obovate +
leafy +, branching +  and simple +
decumbent +, spreading +  and erect +
4-11-lobed +
persistent +
Stylomecon +
Papaveraceae +
caulescent +  and scapose +