Meconopsis gakyidiana

Meconopsis gakyidiana (ཚེར་སྔོན་མེ་ཏོག in Dzongkha[2]) is a species of blue poppy native to Eastern Bhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh of India and Southern Xizang of China.

It is similar to Meconopsis baileyi but differs from by having bowl-shaped flowers with distinctly concave petals, orange-coloured thecae and longer style.

In 2017, following a collaboration between the Blue Poppy Society, Japan, and the National Biodiversity Center, Bhutan, it was found that this was a misidentification.

Specimens collected by Frank Kingdon-Ward in 1938 on the Indian side of the border and by George Sherriff in 1934 in Bhutan have for a long time been treated as M. grandis.

[4] Meconopsis gakyidiana is currently distributed across eastern Bhutan, western Arunachal Pradesh in India, and southern Xizang (Tibet), from 3,700–4,300 m in elevation.