''Cathcartia'' is a small

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of flowering plants in the family

Papaveraceae The Papaveraceae, informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family (biology), family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales. The family is cosmopolitan dis ...

, native to China, Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, and northern Myanmar.

Chloroplast DNA Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA), also known as plastid DNA (ptDNA) is the DNA located in chloroplasts, which are photosynthetic organelles located within the cells of some eukaryotic organisms. Chloroplasts, like other types of plastid, contain a genome s ...

evidence supports a split of ''Cathcartia'' from the blue poppy genus ''

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

'' in an effort to resolve longstanding taxonomic difficulties in the Himalayan poppies.

Species

The following species are accepted: *'' Cathcartia chelidoniifolia'' *'' Cathcartia oliveriana'' *'' Cathcartia smithiana'' *'' Cathcartia villosa''

References

Papaveroideae Papaveraceae genera Flora of North-Central China Flora of South-Central China Flora of Southeast China Flora of Tibet Flora of Nepal Flora of East Himalaya Flora of Myanmar {{Papaveraceae-stub