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The genus Paeonia is in the family Paeoniaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Paeonia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Paeonia algeriensis Chabert	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia anomala L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia arietina G.Anderson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia × baokangensis Z.L.Dai & T.Hong	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia broteri Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia brownii Douglas ex Hook.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia californica Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia cambessedesii (Willk.) Willk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia cathayana D.Y.Hong & K.Y.Pan	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia clusii Stern	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia coriacea Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia corsica Sieber ex Tausch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia daurica Andrews	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia decomposita Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia delavayi Franch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia emodi Royle	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia intermedia C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia jishanensis T.Hong & W.Z.Zhao	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia kesrouanensis (J.Thiébaut) J.Thiébaut	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia lactiflora Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia ludlowii (Stern & G.Taylor) D.Y.Hong	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia mairei H.Lév.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia mascula (L.) Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia obovata Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia officinalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia ostii T.Hong & J.X.Zhang	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia parnassica Tzanoud.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia peregrina Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia qiui Y.L.Pei & D.Y.Hong	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia rockii (S.G.Haw & Lauener) T.Hong & J.J.Li ex D.Y.Hong	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia saueri D.Y.Hong, Xiao Q.Wang & D.M.Zhang	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia × saundersii Stebbins	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia sterniana H.R.Fletcher	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia × suffruticosa Andrews	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia tenuifolia L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Paeonia × yananensis T.Hong & M.R.Li	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 167 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Paeonia. Of these 36 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 230 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Paeonia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 167 species names for the genus Paeonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	36	21.6%
◕	Synonym	125	74.9%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.4%

All names

The status of the 397 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Paeonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	53	13.4%
◕	Synonym	338	85.1%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	4	1.0%

Of these names,

• 17 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 167 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Paeonia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	36	125	0	0	161	96.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	4	6	3.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Paeonia, are as follows: