When investigating Balkan peonies Carl Fritsch concluded that the name P. peregrina belonged rightly to the Balkan species from Constantinople named P. decora by Anderson in 1818 and P. romanica by Brandza in 1879 and he published a note on this in Verhandlungen Zool.- Bot. Gesellschaft Wien 49: 240 (1899).

Fritsch rejected the Linnaean name P. officinalis and used the name P.feminea (L.) Desf. for the female peony (P. officinalis, sensu stricto) and P. mascula (L.) Desf, for the male peony, with P. corallina as a synonym.

From the book:

Peonies of Greece

A taxonomic and historical Survey of the Genus Paeonia in Greece

William T. Stearn and Peter H. Davis