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 718 782 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 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.