Cathcartia

{{short description|Genus of Papaveraceae plants}}

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|synonyms=Cumminsia {{small|King ex Prain}}

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Cathcartia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to China, Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, and northern Myanmar.{{cite POWO |id=31632-1 |title=Cathcartia Hook.f. |access-date=9 September 2022 }} Chloroplast DNA evidence supports a split of Cathcartia from the blue poppy genus Meconopsis in an effort to resolve longstanding taxonomic difficulties in the Himalayan poppies.{{cite journal |title=A New Infrageneric Classification of Meconopsis (Papaveraceae) Based on a Well-supported Molecular Phylogeny |year=2017 |last1=Xiao |first1=Wei |last2=Simpson |first2=Beryl B. |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=226–233 |doi=10.1600/036364417X695466 |s2cid=91152469 }}