Glaucidium (plant)

:"This article is about the plant. For the owl genus, see "GlaucidiumTaxobox | name = "Glaucidium"

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image_caption = "Glaucidium palmatum"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ranunculales
familia = Ranunculaceae
genus = "Glaucidium"
genus_authority = Siebold & Zucc.
species = "G. palmatum"
binomial = "Glaucidium palmatum"
binomial_authority = Siebold & Zucc.

"Glaucidium" is a genus of plants in family Ranunculaceae, comprising a single species "Glaucidium palmatum" (Japanese Wood Poppy; シラネアオイ "Shirane-aoi"). It is endemic to northern and eastern Japan on Hokkaidō and northeastern Honshū on mountains close to the Sea of Japan.Shiro Tsuyuzaki, Hokkaido University: [http://hosho.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/~tsuyu/plants/gla_pal.html Japanese Wood Poppy] ] Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4974 "Glaucidium"] ]

It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40 cm tall with a rigid stem with two large (20 cm diameter) palmately lobed leaves at the top and small membraneous leaves lower on the stem. The flower is produced singly at the top of the stem, 8 cm diameter, with four pink to pale purple (rarely white) petaloid sepals, numerous stamens and two carpels. The fruit is a cluster of follicles.Huxley, A., ed. (1992). "New RHS Dictionary of Gardening". Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.]

It is sometimes placed in its own family Glaucidiaceae, or in the family Paeoniaceae.

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