''Dicranostigma'', also known as the eastern horned poppies, is a

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 ...

in the poppy

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

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 ...

, the species of which are native to the

Himalaya The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than 100 pea ...

and western

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. Although resembling the true horned poppies of ''

Glaucium ''Glaucium'' (horned poppy) is a genus of about 25 species of annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, north Africa, and southwest and central Asia. The species commonly occur in sal ...

'', they have stigmas with two lobes and fruit with only traces of the "horns". A number of the species have only been recently published. The annual '' Dicranostigma erectum'' and biennial/perennial '' Dicranostigma lactucoides'' ("Himalayan horned poppy") are regularly cultivated.

References

* Christopher Grey-Wilson, ''Poppies'' (Portland: Timber Press, 2000) pp. 51–53 Papaveroideae Papaveraceae genera Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker {{Papaveraceae-stub