accepted name (2005):
Synonym of P. mollis Anderson Stern
Synonym of P.villosa, Sweet Lynch
Sims, J. 1826 Paeonia sessiliflora, Sessile-flowered peony. Curtis 's Botanical Magazine t. 2648
Lynch (1890)
25. P.villosa, Sweet, Fl. G; 1.113 (P. sessiliflora, Bot. Mag; t. 2648).—
Nearly related to the above, but with secondary petioles not abnormally short, leaf segments and carpels nearly the same. Corolla white. I am assured that this must be distinct as a species from P. mollis, but I have not seen them growing together.
Stern (1946):
P.mollis Anderson in Trans.Linn.Soc.London, 12, 282 (1818) ; Bot.Reg.t.474 (1820) ; DC. Prodr. 1,66 (1824) ; Loddiges, Bot.Cab. t. 1263 (1827) ; Baker in Gard. Chron., N. Ser. 21, 829 (1884) ; Huth in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 14, 273 (1891); F. C. Stern in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 68, 130 (1943) Syn. ... P.sessiliflora Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2648 (1826) ; F. C. Stern in Journ. Roy. Hort, Soc. 56, 73 (1931)....
