''Meconopsis villosa'', the Himalayan woodland-poppy, is an ornamental poppy, which is native of

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. The species was placed in the genus ''Cathcartia'' erected by J.D. Hooker to honour J.F. Cathcart, an Indian civil servant and amateur botanist who collected and hired native artists to illustrate the flowers of the Himalayas. It was transferred to ''

Meconopsis ''Meconopsis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the poppy family Papaveraceae. It was created by French botanist Viguier in 1814 for the species known by the common name Welsh poppy, which Carl Linnaeus had described as ''Papaver cambricum''. ...

'' by George Taylor in 1934. In 2017, it was suggested that the genus ''Cathcartia'' should be revived, and this species again treated as ''Cathcartia villosa''.

References

* Grey-Wilson, C. (1993) ''Poppies: The poppy family in the wild and in cultivation.'' (Poppies) 81. ccepts; lists as ''C. villosa'' Hook.f. ex Hook. * Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. (1984–) ''Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.'' (F Bhutan) ccepts; lists as ''C. villosa Hook.'' * Hara, H. et al. (1978–1982) ''An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.'' (L Nepal) ists as ''C. villosa'' Hook.f. *

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villosa ''Villosa'' is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Unionidae The Unionidae are a family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionida, the bivalve molluscs sometimes known as river mussels, or simp ...

Endemic flora of Nepal Taxa named by Asa Gray Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker {{Ranunculales-stub