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|accepted_name=Macleaya
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in D. Denham and H. Clapperton, Narr. Travels Africa, app.,
|place=218. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|common_names=Plume-poppy;tree-celandine
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Papaveraceae;Macleaya
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Papaveraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Macleaya]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Alexander Macleay, 1767-1848, Scottish botanist, entomologist, and Secretary to the Colony of New South Wales
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, caulescent, usually glaucous, from rhizomes; sap yellow. <b>Stems</b> hollow, leafy. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, petiolate; blade 1-2× subpalmately or pinnately lobed. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, paniculate, many-flowered; bracts present. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 2, distinct; petals absent; stamens 25-30 [8-12]; pistil 2-carpellate; ovary substipitate, 1-locular; style short; stigma 2-lobed. <b>Capsules</b> nodding, substipitate, 2-valved, dehiscing from apex. <b>Seeds</b> 4-6 [1], arillate [not arillate]. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Asia (China and Japan).
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Native to temperate eastern Asia, <i>Macleaya</i> has sometimes been merged with neotropical Bocconia, which differs in having perennial stems, long-stipitate ovaries, fleshy, single-seeded capsules dehiscing from the base, and much larger seeds. The sap of <i>Macleaya</i> has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as an antiseptic for wounds (C. Grey-Wilson 1993).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=hutchinson1920a
|text=Hutchinson, J. 1920. Bocconia and Macleaya. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1920: 275-282.
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name=Macleaya
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Papaveraceae
|distribution=North America;Asia (China and Japan).
|reference=hutchinson1920a
|publication title=in D. Denham and H. Clapperton, Narr. Travels Africa, app.,
|publication year=1826
|special status=
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|genus=Macleaya
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