''Roemeria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family
Papaveraceae
The Papaveraceae are an economically important family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales, informally known as the poppy family. The family is cosmopolitan, occurring in temperat ...
, native to
Macaronesia
Macaronesia (Portuguese: ''Macaronésia,'' Spanish: ''Macaronesia'') is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic, off the coasts of Africa and Europe. Each archipelago is made up of a number of Atlantic oceanic islands ...
, Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, the western Himalayas,
Xinjiang
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, and Mongolia.
A 2006 molecular analysis revised the taxonomy of ''
Papaver
''Papaver'' is a genus of 70–100 species of frost-tolerant annuals, biennials, and perennials native to temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, Africa and North America. It is the type genus of the poppy family, Papaveraceae.
Description
The ...
'', elevating ''Roemeria'' to the genus level and showing that it is sister to ''Papaver'' sect. ''Argemonidium''.
Species
The following species are accepted:
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Roemeria argemone''
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Roemeria carica
''Roemeria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Macaronesia, Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, the western Himalayas, Xinjiang, and Mongo ...
''
*''
Roemeria hybrida''
*''
Roemeria macrostigma''
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Roemeria procumbens''
*''
Roemeria refracta''
References
Papaveroideae
Papaveraceae genera
Flora of Madeira
Flora of the Canary Islands
Flora of North Africa
Flora of Europe
Flora of the Caucasus
Flora of Western Asia
Flora of the Arabian Peninsula
Flora of Central Asia
Flora of Pakistan
Flora of West Himalaya
Flora of Xinjiang
Flora of Mongolia
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