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