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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Paeonia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Paeonia

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Ranunculopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xxvi, 96. 12 Aug 1843.       Subclassis  Ranunculidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       SuperOrdo  Ranunculanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Paeoniales Heintze pub. Cormofyt. Fylog.: 12, 97. 1927.       Familia  Paeoniaceae (DC.) F. Rudolphi pub. Syst. Orb. Veg.: 61. 1830, nom. cons. common name: Peonys       Subfamilia  Paeonioideae Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 95. 9 Mar 1832.       Tribus  Paeonieae DC. pub. Prodr. 1: 64. mid Jan 1825.       Genus  Paeonia L. pub. (1753) common name: peony

Named members of the Genus Paeonia

1	Species  brownii Dougl. ex Hook. common name: wild peony
	2    Subspecies  californica (Nutt.) Abrams syn. Paeonia californica
3	Species  californica Nutt. common name: California peony
4	Species  lactiflora Pallas common name: Chinese peony, white peony, bai shao yao  (Chinese)
5	Species  officinalis L. common name: peony

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.