Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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book chapter
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Paeonia officinalis
Linnaeus var.
mascula
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 530. 1753
.
RCN: 3939.
Lectotype
(Schmitt in
Candollea
58: 184. 2003): Herb. Clifford: 211,
Paeonia
1, sheet A (BM-000628767)
. -
Epitype
(Schmitt in
Candollea
58: 184. 2003): France. Savigny
les
Beaune (
Cote
d'Or
) bois, taillis pierreux calcaire, vers la partie
superieure
de la Combe Vauteloy, 400m, 24 mai 1911, Legi Ldevergnes (P).
Current name:
Paeonia mascula
(L.) Mill.
(
Paeoniaceae
).
Note:
Meikle (
Fl. Cyprus
1: 69. 1977) indicated
P. mas
.
Lobel,
Pl. Stirp.
t. 832 (1581) as
"probably"
the type but his uncertainty means that this cannot be accepted as a formal typification.