Argemone
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Annual herbs with yellow latex. Leaves lobed with spine-tipped teeth. Inflorescence a cyme, flowers shortly pedicellate; sepals 3 (in Australia) or 2, spine-tipped, caducous; petals 4–6 in 2 whorls; stamens numerous; stigmas 4–6, funnel-like, fused along inner face, virtually sessile; ovary 1-locular. Capsule dehiscing from apex to about midway, into as many valves as there are stigmas; seeds numerous, spherical, shortly arillate.
About 10 species from southern North America (including Hawaii), and South America; 2 species naturalised in Australia.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Argemone. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 69–69. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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