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|accepted_name=Canbya
|accepted_authority=Parry ex A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=12: 51, plate 1. 1876
|year=1876
}}
|common_names=Pygmy-poppy
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Papaveraceae;Canbya
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Papaveraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Canbya]]</div></div>
|etymology=for William M. Canby, 1831-1904, Delaware botanist
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, semiacaulescent, very small, glabrous, from taproots; sap clear. <b>Stems</b> branching at and just above ground level, leafy, branches short. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, congested in tufts, sessile; blade unlobed, linear-oblong, fleshy, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, 1-flowered, much exceeding leaves; peduncle slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 3, distinct; petals 5-7; stamens 6-15; pistil 3-4-carpellate; ovary ovoid, 1-locular; style absent; stigmas 3(-4), linear, radiate-recurved, appressed or adherent to ovary. <b>Capsules</b> erect, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 3(-4)-valved, dehiscing from apex. <b>Seeds</b> many, brown, oblong-obovoid to ellipsoid, slightly arcuate, 0.6-0.8 mm, glossy, aril absent. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=w United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>These diminutive (but handsome) desert endemics are among the smallest plants in the family. Little is known about their life histories, reproduction, ecological interactions, or evolutionary histories, and they merit more field and laboratory study.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Petals white, marcescent; filaments shorter than anthers.
|[[Canbya candida|Canbya candida]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Petals bright yellow, deciduous; filaments longer than anthers.
|[[Canbya aurea|Canbya aurea]]
|}
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name=Canbya
|author=Curtis Clark; Robert W. Kiger
|authority=Parry ex A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Papaveraceae
|distribution=w United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1876
|special status=
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|genus=Canbya
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