Meconopsis punicea Maxim.

Flowering from June to September.

Meconopsis punicea is occurring in SW Gansu, SE Qinghai, NW Sichuan, NE Xizang of China.

Phylogeny of Papaver and related genera were inferred from ITS nuclear ribosomal DNA and plastid trnL intron and trnL-F intergenic spacers (Carolan et al., 2006). Results demonstrated that the Asian representatives of Meconopsis were resolved as sister to Papaver sect. Meconella. Within Asian Meconopsis, two distinct clades were existed, the first clade comprised species such as Meconopsis chelidonifolia and M. villosa that are sister to the other representatives of Asian Meconopsis plus the remaining Old World Papaveroideae (Meconopsis cambrica, Papaver, Roemeria, Stylomecon).

Herbs, perennial or monocarpic, 30-75 cm tall in flower, base with persistent leaf bases, armed with dense shortly branched yellowish or brown setae. Roots fibrous. Leaves all basal, forming a rosette, deciduous; petiole 6-34 cm long, basally slightly ampliate sheathed; blade oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, 3-18 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, both surfaces with dense, shortly branched, yellowish or brown, barbellate setae, obviously longitudinally veined, basally attenuate and decurrent into petiole, margin entire, apex acute. Scapes 1-6 from rosette leaf cluster, usually costate, fulvous barbellate-setose, ribbed. Flowers solitary on basal scapes, nutant. Flower buds ovoid. Sepals ovate, 1.5-4 cm, adaxially densely yellowish or brown barbellate-setose. Petals 4, rarely 6, intense carmine, rarely white, elliptic, 6-10 cm long, 2.3-5 cm wide, apex acute or rounded. Filaments reddish, linear, 1-3 cm, flat; anthers yellow or brownish yellow, oblong, 3-4 mm. Ovary broadly oblong or ovate, 1-3 cm, densely yellowish barbellate-setose; styles very short or obsolete; stigmas 4-6-lobed. Capsule elliptic-oblong, 1.8-2.5 cm long, 1-1.4 cm wide, glabrous or densely yellowish barbellate-setose, 4-6-valvate for a short distance from apex. Seeds densely papillose.

Growing in grassy slopes, open shrublands, mountain heaths and moorlands; 2800-4300 m.

Meconopsis punicea là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Anh túc. Loài này được Maxim. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1889.

红花绿绒蒿（学名：Meconopsis punicea）为罂粟科绿绒蒿属下的一个种。