{{Short description|Genus of flowering of plants in the poppy family}} {{Speciesbox | image = Ichthyoselmis macrantha (15336125631).jpg | image_caption = ''Ichthyoselmis macrantha'' | display_parents = 4 | genus = Ichtyoselmis | parent_authority = Lidén & T.Fukuhara | species = macrantha | authority = (Oliv.) Lidén | synonyms = ''Dicentra macrantha'' <small>Oliv.</small> }}
'''''Ichtyoselmis macrantha''''' (also spelled ''Ichthyoselmis''; formerly known as ''Dicentra macrantha''; '''large-flowered dicentra''') is the only species in the genus '''''Ichtyoselmis'''''. It is a perennial plant growing from a long rhizome, native to woodland and glades at elevations of {{convert|1500|-|2700|m|ft}} in northern Burma and southern China.
In Sichuan Province, China, it is known as goldfish plant, because of the shape and color of the flowers.
==Etymology== ''Ichtyoselmis'' comes from Greek {{lang|grc|ἰχθύς}} (''{{lang|grc-Latn|ichthŷs}}'', "fish")<ref>{{LSJ|i)xqu{{=}}s|ἰχθῦς|cite}}</ref> and ''{{lang|grc-Latn|selmís}}'' ("fishing line").<ref>{{LSJ|selmi/s|σελμίς}}</ref>{{source needed|reason=A source that explains the full compound is needed.|date=March 2025}} Although the correct spelling of the Greek word uses ''th'' (theta), the scientific name uses ''t''.
==Description== Leaves are divided in threes twice or three times and toothed.
Flowers hang at the end of leafy stems up to {{convert|1|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall in cymes of 3-14 flowers and have two long, thin sepals and four cream to pale yellow petals. The two outer petals are bent outwards. The two inner petals are connected at the tip and pointed.
==References== {{Reflist}} * Bleeding hearts, Corydalis, and their relatives. Mark Tebbitt, Magnus Lidén, and Henrik Zetterlund. Timber Press. 2008. — [https://books.google.com/books?id=_OLFpOtEAE0C Google Books]
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123926/http://www.scientific-web.com/en/Biology/Plants/Magnoliophyta/Ichtyoselmis.html Scientific-web: ''Ichtyoselmis macrantha''] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110904065844/http://www.archeauxplantes.org/shangrila/Dicentra-macrantha-39.html 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110904070047/http://www.archeauxplantes.org/shangrila/Dicentra-macrantha-66.html 2] — photos from a [https://web.archive.org/web/20110904065745/http://www.archeauxplantes.org/shangrila/ botanizing journey] to Yunnan and Sichuan by [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205201716/http://www.archeauxplantes.org/ Arche aux Plantes] *[http://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/dicentra-macrantha Shoot gardening U.K. - Dicentra macrantha] - ''gardening website.''
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Category:Fumarioideae Category:Monotypic Papaveraceae genera Category:Flora of Myanmar Category:Flora of China Category:Garden plants of Asia Category:Taxa named by Magnus Lidén