Papaveraceae -- subfamilies
Papaveraceae(s.s.) (24/201) Fumarioideae (18/461)
-Herbs to shrubs -Herbs, with dissected leaves.
-Colored or milky sap (latex) -Watery & colorless sap
-Fls. usu. solitary, actinomorphic -Fls. not solitary, zygomorphic or isobilateral
-Nectaries absent -Nectaries at filament base.
-Ca2or 3 (large, caducous) -Ca2 (small)
-Co 4or more (wrinkled in bud) -Co2+2
-A usu. many -A 3+3 (=diadelphous)
-G2-many; stigma large, radiate, -G 2; stigma small, with style sessile
-Fruit= sept. or poricidal capsule -Fruit= septicidal capsule (nut like)