4.2. Meconopsis sect. Forrestianae C. Y. Wu & H. Chuang, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 2 (4) 375. 1980

Type species.

Meconopsis forrestii Prain.

Notes.

Meconopsis lancifolia subsp. lepida (Prain) Grey-Wilson was raised to the species level by Yoshida and Sun (2017). Yoshida and Sun (2018) described four new species in the Forrestianae section and another four were described by Yoshida and Sun (2019 a). They also positioned the species M. pleurogyna W. T. Wang (Wang 2019) here, reduced M. sinomaculata Grey-Wilson and M. xiangchenensis R. Li & Z. L. Dao to variety level and described two more subspecies of M. lancifolia (Franch.) Franch. ex Prain. The monograph by Yoshida and Sun (2019 a) concluded that the section includes 15 species.