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Paeonia mascula Miller
Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, no. 1 1768
type: [herbaceous peony] – [species]
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1768 |
Miller's original description |
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“1. Paeonia (Mascula) foliis lobatis ex ovatolanceolatis. Haller, Helv. 311. Peony with lobate leaves which are oval and spear-shaped. Paeonia folio nigricante splendido, quae mas. C.B.P. 323. Peony with dark shining leaves, otherwise male Peony. The first sort here enumerated, is the common male Peony, which grows naturally on the Helvetian mountains." |
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1946 |
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3a. P. mascula subsp. mascula Plates 5,6,7; Figs 6,9,27 P. mascula (L.) Miller, loc. cit. (1768): Moss, Cambridge Brit. Fl. 3:155 t. 166 (192U); F.C. Stern, Study of Paeonia, 17, figs. (1946) in part P. corallina Retzius, Obs. Bot. 3:34 (1783); Sowerby & Smith, Engl. Bot. 22: t. 1513 (1806); Hayek, Prodr. Fl. Penins. Balcan. 1:297 (1924). |
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Cullen & Heywood in Tutin: Flora Europaea |
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8. P. mascula (L.) Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 8, no. 1 (1768) (P. corallina Retz., P. caucasica (Schipcz.) Schipcz.; incl. P. banatica auct., non Rochel). Stems 20-80 cm. Leaves simply biternate, or with a few leaflets divided; segments 9—16 (—21), narrowly to broadly elliptical to ovate or orbicular, glabrous or pubescent beneath. Flowers 8—14 cm in diameter, red or rarely white. Follicles (2)3-5(6), 2—4 cm, usually villous, rounded at apex, with a sessile stigma. S. Europe, extending northwards to N.C. France and Austria. Al Bu Co Ga Gr Hs It Ju Rm Rs(K) Sa Si [Au Br]. |
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Flowers white or pinkish-white |
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(d) subsp. hellenica |
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Flowers pink to red |
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Lower leaves with 9 or 10(11) broadly elliptical to orbicular leaflets |
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Leaflets broadly ovate to orbicular, with undulate margins, glabrous beneath |
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(b) subsp. triternata |
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Leaflets elliptical to broadly elliptical with plane margins, pubescent beneath |
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(c) subsp. russoi |
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Lower leaves usually with more than 12 narrowly elliptical to ovate leaflets |
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At least stem and petioles without hairs; leaflets elliptical to ovate |
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(a) subsp. mascula |
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Stem and petioles and lower surface of leaves pubescent; leaflets narrowly elliptical |
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(e) subsp. arietina |
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Carsten Burkhardt's Web Project Paeonia - The Peony Database |
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