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[email protected] Flora of South Australia 5th Edition | Edited by Jürgen Kellermann PAPAVERACEAE (partly)1 Neville G. Walsh2 (subfam. Fumarioideae) & Jürgen Kellermann3 (family description) Herbaceous annuals or perennials, sometimes becoming shrubby as the inflorescence develops; most parts of the plant produce latex and contain alkaloids, leaves entire and often deeply dissected, pinnately or palmately compound, exstipulate. Inflorescence cymose or racemose, often a thyrse with leaf-like or membranous bracts; flowers bisexual, sepals 2 or 3, caducous; petals 4 or 6; stamens 4, 6 or numerous; ovary superior, carpels 2 or 3 or numerous (not in S.A.); in FUMARIOIDEAE : flowers either almost regular with petals in 2 whorls of differently shaped petals, stamens 4 (Hypecoum only), or flowers zygomorphic with sepals 2, in a lateral position, usually the same colour and texture as the corolla, and petals 4, in two whorls, with the 2 lateral ones being the inner ones, with the large dorsal one pouched or spurred at the base (with nectary scale), stamens 6, joined in an anterior and a posterior bundle, each consisting of 3 stamens, ovary surmounted by a style with a terminal 2- or 3-fid stigma, carpels 2, ovule 1 or more; in PA P AVEROIDEAE : flowers regular, stamens numerous, ovary unilocular with numerous ovules; flowers regular, sepals caducous, stamens 4, ovary unilocular with numerous ovules.