accepted name (2005):

Paeonia rhodia

1984

Stearn & Davis

5. P. rhodia Plate 14; Figs 36, 37

P. rhodia Stearn in Gard. Chron. Ser. 111. 110:159, Fig. 77 (1941): F.C. Stern, Study of Paeonia 84 (1946); Davis & Cullen in Fl. Turkey 1:205 (1965); Phitos & others. Wild Flowers of Greece 53, fig. 37 (1965); Goulandris, Goulimis & Stearn, Wild Flowers of Greece, 24, t. (1968).

P. clusii subsp. rhodia (Stearn) Tzanoudakis, Cytotaxon. Study Paeonia in Greece, 25 (1977).

1995

Cullen & Heywood in Tutin: Flora Europaea

6. P.clusii F.C. Stern, Bot. Mag. 162 :t. 9594 (1940) (P. officinalis var. glabra (Boiss.) Hayek). Stems 20-30 cm. Lower leaves with 30 or more narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptical, acute segments, glabrous above and beneath, or slightly pubescent beneath. Flowers 7—10 cm in diameter, white, rarely flushed with pink. Filaments pink. Follicles 2—5, c. 3 cm, densely tomentose. 2n = 10, 20. Kriti and Karpathos. Cr.

Outside Europe, known only from the E. Aegean islands, where the plants have been distinguished as P. rhodia Stearn, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 110: 159 (1941) (subsp. rhodia (Stearn) Tzan.).

Carsten Burkhardt's Web Project Paeonia - The Peony Database

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