Often monocarpic

• Herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet

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n. Any of several poppy-like plants, of the genus (taxlink Meconopsis genus noshow=1), most of which are found in the Himalayas

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Meconopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae . It was first described by French botanist Viguier in 1814 who named it as poppy-like (from Greek mekon poppy, opsis alike). The species have attractive flowers and have two distinct ...