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The genus Papaver is in the family Papaveraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Papaver

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Papaver aculeatum Thunb.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver alboroseum Hultén	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver alpinum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver ambiguum Popov	Accepted		TRO
Papaver amurense (N. Busch) N. Busch ex Tolm.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver apulum Ten.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver arenarium M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver argemone L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver armeniacum (L.) DC.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver atlanticum Coss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver belangeri Boiss.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver bracteatum Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver californicum A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Papaver canescens Tolm.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver chibinense N. Semen.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver czekanowskii Tolm.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver dubium L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver fugax Poir.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver glaucum Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver guerlekense Stapf	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver hybridum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver labradoricum (Fedde) Solstad & Elven	Accepted		TRO
Papaver laestadianum Nordh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver langeanum Tolm.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver lapeyrousianum Gutermann ex Greuter & Burdet	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver lapponicum (Tolm.) Nordh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver lasiothrix Fedde	Accepted		TRO
Papaver leiocarpum Popov	Accepted		TRO
Papaver lujaurense N. Semen.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver mcconellii Hultén	Accepted		TRO
Papaver nudicaule L.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver ochotense Tolm.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver orientale L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver pavoninum C.A. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver pinnatifidum Moris	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver popovii Sipliv.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver pseudo-orientale Medw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver purpureomarginatum Kadereit	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver pygmaeum Rydb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver radicatum Rottb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver rhoeas L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver rubro-aurantiacum Lundstr.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver rupifragum Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver schamurinii V.V.Petrovsky	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver setosum Pesckhova	Accepted		TRO
Papaver somniferum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Papaver tolmachevii N. Semen.	Accepted		TRO
Papaver walpolei A.E. Porsild	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 413 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Papaver. Of these 48 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 89 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Papaver. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 413 species names for the genus Papaver recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	48	11.6%
◕	Synonym	77	18.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	288	69.7%

All names

The status of the 502 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Papaver recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	64	12.7%
◕	Synonym	137	27.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	301	60.0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 413 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Papaver, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	46	75	0	0	121	29.3%
	Low confidence	2	2	0	288	292	70.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Papaver, are as follows: