Papaver decaisnei

Appearance

Annual, (10-) 15-30 (-40) cm tall herb, usually almost glabrous all over, often branched from below, and densely leafy in the lower half with leafless, long peduncles shooting above. Leave very variable, often pinnatifid, rarely slightly lobed or partly pinnatisect; lowest narrowed into a short stalk, others sessile, amplexicaul, often somewhat distant, (1.5-) 3-5 (-10) cm long, 1-3 cm broad; primary lobes triangular to oblong, simple or lobulate; leaf base usually entire, somewhat rounded, usually giving ovate-oblong appearance to the upper leaves which become more conspicuously dissected above than the basal part; all leaves ± glabrous without bristle-tipped lobes. Peduncles (10-) 15-25 cm long, glabrous or very sparsely appressedly setose. Flower bud c. 10 mm long, 6-7 mm broad, ellipsoid acute or subapiculate, usually glabrous. Flowers usually 20-25 mm in diam., reddish-purple or reddish-orange, with or without a black blotch at the base. Petals 10-15 (-18) mm long, broadly obovate or suborbicular. Stamens as long as the ovary; filements filiform; anther c. 1 mm long, broadly elliptic. Capsule oblong, narrowed towards the base, 10-15 (-18) mm long, 5-8 mm broad, with ± as many ribs as the stigmatic lobes, glabrous; stigma rays 4-8, not reaching the shallowly lobed or usually wavy margin of the disk; seeds very small, kidney-shaped, suborbicular, less than 1 mm in diam., brownish.

Distribution

Distribution: Jordan, Sinai, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan