Section 1B. Moutan | |||||||
Shrubs up to 2 m tall. Flowers solitary on top of branches, not in a cyme. Disk leathery, enveloping carpels by half or entirely until mid-anthesis. Carpels mostly 5, less often 3 or 4 in number. | |||||||
Included species (7): | |||||||
Paeonia decomposita | |||||||
Paeonia rotundiloba | |||||||
Paeonia rockii | |||||||
Paeonia ostii | |||||||
Paeonia jishanensis | |||||||
Paeonia qiui | |||||||
Paeonia cathayana | |||||||
Distribution: endemic to C China: N & W Sichuan, SE Gansu, Shaanxi, Hubei, Henan, SW Shanxi and C Anhui |