ABSTRACT
The taxonomy of poppies has changed in recent decades of plant systematic studies as further characteristics of taxa have become known. In some works, Papaveraceae, the family which contains among others poppies, has been included into a larger order, Rhoeadales, together with the families of today’s Capparales (Fedde, 1936; Engler, 1964; Tutin and Heywood, 1964; Hutchinson, 1969; Markgraf, 1986). The association of these groups was based only two morphologic characters-the existence of commissural stigma and the replum in the fruits.
