目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: 种子19份; DNA材料29份; DNA7份;

• 科:罂粟科    Papaveraceae
• 属:绿绒蒿属   Meconopsis
• 种:红花绿绒蒿   Meconopsis punicea

5. Meconopsis punicea Maximowicz, Fl. Tangut. 34. 1889. 红花绿绒蒿 hong hua lü rong hao Meconopsis punicea var. elliptica Z. J. Cui & Y. S. Lian; M. punicea var. glabra M. Z. Lu & Y. S. Lian.Herbs, perennial or monocarpic, 30-75 cm tall in flower, base with persistent leaf bases, armed with dense shortly branched yellowish or brown setae. Roots fibrous. Leaves all basal, forming a rosette, deciduous; petiole 6-34 cm, basally slightly ampliate sheathed; blade oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, 3-18 × 1-4 cm, both surfaces with dense, shortly branched, yellowish or brown, barbellate setae, obviously longitudinally veined, basally attenuate and decurrent into petiole, margin entire, apex acute. Scapes 1-6 from rosette leaf cluster, usually costate, fulvous barbellate-setose, ribbed. Flowers solitary on basal scapes, nutant. Flower buds ovoid. Sepals ovate, 1.5-4 cm, adaxially densely yellowish or brown barbellate-setose. Petals 4, rarely 6, intense carmine, rarely white, elliptic, 6-10 × 2.3-5 cm, apex acute or rounded. Filaments reddish, linear, 1-3 cm, flat; anthers yellow or brownish yellow, oblong, 3-4 mm. Ovary broadly oblong or ovate, 1-3 cm, densely yellowish barbellate-setose; styles very short or obsolete; stigmas 4-6-lobed. Capsule elliptic-oblong, 1.8-2.5 × 1-1.4 cm, glabrous or densely yellowish barbellate-setose, 4-6-valvate for a short distance from apex. Seeds densely papillose. Fl. Jun-Sep.● Grassy slopes, open shrublands, mountain heaths and moorlands; 2800-4300 m. SW Gansu, SE Qinghai, NW Sichuan, NE Xizang.White-flowered forms have been assigned to Meconopsis punicea f. albiflora L. H. Zhou (Bull. Bot. Lab. N. E. Forest. Inst., Harbin 1980(8): 98. 1980).【引自：Flora of China】

多年生草本，高30-75厘米，基部盖以宿存的叶基，其上密被淡黄色或棕褐色、具多短分技的刚毛。须根纤维状。叶全部基生，莲座状，叶片倒披针形或狭倒卵形，长3-18厘米，宽1-4厘米，先端急尖，基部渐狭，下延入叶柄，边缘全缘，两面密被淡黄色或棕褐色、具多短分枝的刚毛明显具数条纵脉；叶柄长6-34厘米，基部略扩大成鞘。花葶1-6，从莲座叶丛中生出，通常具肋，被棕黄色、具分枝且反折的刚毛。花单生于基生花葶上，下垂：花芽卵形；萼片卵形，长1.5-4厘米，外面密被淡黄色或棕褐色、具分枝的刚毛；花瓣4，有时6，椭圆形，长3-10 厘米，宽1.5-5厘米，先端急尖或圆，深红色：花丝条形，长1-3厘米，宽2-2.5毫米，扁平，粉红色，花药长圆形，长3-4毫米，黄色；子房宽长圆形或卵形，长1-3厘米．密被淡黄色、具分枝的刚毛，花柱极短，柱头4-6圆裂。蒴果椭圆状长圆形，长1.8-2.5厘米，粗1-1.3厘米，无毛或密被淡黄色、具分枝的刚毛，4-6瓣自顶端微裂。种子密具乳突。花果期6-9月。【引自：中国植物志】