Meconella denticulata

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Meconella denticulata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Meconella
Species:
M. denticulata
Binomial name
Meconella denticulata

Meconella denticulata is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family known by the common name smallflower fairypoppy.

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It is endemic to California, where it grows in the coastal mountain ranges from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the Peninsular Ranges in the southern part of the state. [1]

Description

Meconella denticulata is an annual herb growing up to 20 or 30 centimeters tall. [2] The leaves are linear to oval in shape, sometimes slightly toothed, and 1 to 4 centimeters in length.

The inflorescence is a single flower on a narrow peduncle. It has usually 6 white petals each a few millimeters long.

The fruit is a narrow, twisting capsule 2 or 3 centimeters in maximum length containing many tiny seeds.

Referemces

  1. ↑ Abrams, Le Roy; Ferris, Roxana Stinchfield (1923). Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States: —Vol. II: Buckwheats to Kramerias. Stanford University Press. p. 225. ISBN   978-0-8047-0004-7.
  2. ↑ Technical Bulletin. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1977. p. 72.


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