Review Article of the Papaveracea Adans. and Status of the Egyptian and Saudi Genera

This work deals with the systematic relations of familyPapaveraceae according to the new data derived from molecularanalysis. An overall view has been given to elucidate the taxonomicposition of the family within the basal eudicots. Characteristic featuresof all the group has been given with clear view of the general featuresof the family and its taxonomic divisions according to the differentsystems of classifications, with short account of its distribution.Relations between the three families Papaveraceae, Fumariaceae andHypecoaceae has been clarified, with new list of the genera, as listedby Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew, according to recent considerationof the family, also, it has been added with summary of thephylogenetic relationships of the family and its genera. List of theSaudi and Egyptian wild genera and species is given, with completedescription of their morphological variations and their positionaccording to the new classification of the family.