01253

Paeonia lusitanica Miller

Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, No. 6 .1768

type: [herbaceous peony] – [species] – [synonym]

accepted name (2005):

P. broteri Boissier & Reuter

1884

Baker

 

22. P. Broteri, Boiss. et Reut., Diag., 4 ; Willk. et Lange, Fl. Hisp., iii., 975. P. lusitanica, Miller, Gard. Dict., edit. ii.. No. 6? P. officinalis, Brotero, Fl. Lusit., ii., 299.—Stems glabrous, 1-flowered, 1—2 feet long. Leaves 6—8 to a stem, glabrous on both surfaces, bright green above, glaucescent beneath, the terminal oblong acute segment 1 – 1 ½ inch broad at the middle, the fully developed lower leaves with about 20 segments, scarcely nt all confluent at the base, but the tipper side ones cuncately decurrent on the rachis. Outer sepals very foliaceous. Petals 6—8, obovate-cuneate, about 2 inches long, crimson or rose-red, rarely white. Follicles 2—4, densely pilose,1 ½ inch long, spreading horizontally from the base when mature.A native of the mountainous and subalpine regions of Spain and Portugal. It is intermediate in general character between officinalis and corallina, neither of which are admitted by Willkomm and Lange as natives ol the Iberian peninsula.

1946

Stern

 

P.Broteri Boissier & Reuter, Diagn. PI.Nov.Hisp.4 (184-2) ; Boissier, Voy. Bot. EsP.2, 714 (1845) ; Argenta, Album Ft. Med.-Farm. 1, t. 31 (1862) ; Amo y Mora, F/. Fanerog. Penins. Iber. 6, 746 (1873) ; Willkomm & Lange, Prodr. Ft. HisP.3, 975 (1880) ; Willkomm, III. Ft. HisP.Balear. 1, 105, t. 65, fig. B (1881-85) ; Colmeiro, Enum.y Rev. PI. Penins. Hisp.-Lusit. 1, 88 (1885) ; Baker in Gard. Chron., N. Ser. 22, 10 (1884) ; ibid. 24, 48, fig. n (1886) ; Lynch in Journ. Roy. Hart. Soc. 12, 436 (1890) ; Lazara e Ibiza, ComP.Fl. EspaH. 2, 356 (1907) ; Coutinho, Nota Fl. Portug. 7, 5 (1930) ; F.C. Stem in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 56, 72 (1931) ; F.C. Stern in ibid. 68, 127 (1943).

Syn. ..... P.lusitanica ? Miller, Gard. Dict. No. 8 (1768) ; Tausch in Flora, 11, i, 86 (1828), pro parte ; Sampaio, Adic. e Cm. Fl. Portug. (in Bol. Soc. Brot. Ser. 3, 7), 27-29 (1931). .............species non satis notae

2005

Hong & Castroviejo : Proposal to conserve the name Paeonia broteri against P. lusitanica (Paeoniaceae)




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