Status

Species

Stern

Curtis's Bot. Mag

1946

Stern

1984

Stearn & Davis

4. P. clusii

P. cretica Tausch in Flora (Regensburg) 9:88 (1828); non Sabine (1824).

P. peregrina var. glabra Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1:97 (1867).

P. peregrina var. cretica Huth in Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 14:270 (1891).

P. officinalis var. glabra (Boiss.) Hayek, Prodr. Fl. Penins. Balcan. 1:298 (1924).

P. clusii F.C. Stern & Stearn in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 162: t. 9594 (1940); Rechinger f., Fl. Aegaea, 177 (1943); F.C. Stern, Study of Paeonia, 102, t. (1946); Cullen & Heywood in Fl. Europ. 1:243 (1964).

P. clusii subsp. clusii; Tzanoudakis, Cytotaxon. Study Paeonia in Greece, 23 (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.

picture of P. cusii from Irmtraud Rieck (on paeonia.ch:)