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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Glaucium Mill.

GLAUCIUM Miller

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs with yellow to orange latex. Lvs lobed to 1-2-pinnatifid, usually hispid, glaucous. Fls solitary or in lax leafy cymes. Sepals 2, entire, free, falling as fl. opens, not horned. Petals 4, crumpled in bud, yellow to red. Stigma 2-lobed; style very short or 0. Placentae corky, joined in the centre of the ovary to form a septum. Capsules linear, 2-celled, dehiscing by 2 valves. Seeds reniform, without aril.

Key

1
Stem and capsule hairy; petals deep orange or red
1. *corniculatum
Stem glabrous; capsule tuberculate; petals yellow
2. *flavum

c. 20 spp., Europe, S.W. and C. Asia. Naturalised spp. 2.

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