Bocconia
Encyclopedia
Bocconia is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the poppy family, Papaveraceae
, that contains about 10 species. Carl Linnaeus chose the name to honor the Italian
botanist Paolo Boccone
(1633–1704).
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the poppy family, Papaveraceae
Papaveraceae
Papaveraceae, informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family of 44 genera and approximately 770 species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales. The family is cosmopolitan, occurring in temperate and subtropical climates, but almost unknown in the tropics...
, that contains about 10 species. Carl Linnaeus chose the name to honor the Italian
Italy
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botanist Paolo Boccone
Paolo Boccone
Paolo Silvio Boccone was an Italian botanist from Sicily, whose interest in plants had been sparked at a young age...
(1633–1704).
Selected species
- Bocconia arborea Watson
- Bocconia frutescens L. – Tree Poppy
- Bocconia gracilis Hutch.
- Bocconia integrifolia
Formerly placed here
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(Willd.) R.Br. (as B. cordata Willd.) - Macleaya microcarpa (Maxim.) Fedde (as B. microcarpa Maxim.)