Book  (2010)  Page(s) 193-197.  Includes photo(s).
 
Paeonia kesrouanensis (Thiébaut) Thiébaut, Fl. Lib.-Syr. (in Mém. Inst. Égypte, Cairo, 31): 37 (1936)....
Paeonia turcica P. H. Davis & Cullen, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 26: 176 (1965)....
Perennials. Roots carrot-shaped. Stems 35-80 cm tall, glabrous, green, sometimmes with purple spots or partially purple at the base, with 4-7 yellow-green scales at the base. Petioles and petiolules glabrous. Lower leaves biternate; leaflets/leaf segments 10-14, rarely up to 17 in number, ovate or elliptic, acute at the apex, 8-18 cm long, 4-7.5 cm wide, glabrous above, sparsely to rather densely villous beneath. Flowers solitary; involucrate bracts mostly one, rarely 2 in number, leaf-like, or absent; sepals 3-4, less frequently 2 or 5 in number, nearly orbicular, mostly or all rounded but sometimes one acute at the apex, green but often purple at the periphery, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hirsute outside; petals 5-9 in number, pale pink, pink or red, 4.5-6.3 cm long, 2.5-4.2 cm wide, mostly entire, rarely incised; filaments dark purple; anthers yellow; disk 1 mm high, entire, rarely waved; carpels 1-3, rarely 4 or 5 in number, glabrous; styles 1.5-3.5 mm long, styles and straight part of stigmas together 3.5-7.0 mm long...
Flowering from late April to late May; fruiting from Late July to September...2n = 20...
Growing in Fagus orientalis, Pinus nigra or Cedrus libani forests or in Quercus scrubs in areas of limestones or metamorphic rocks at altitudes from 1,000 to 1,800 m. Confined to Lebanon, SW Syria, and SW and S Turkey...
...grows together with P. daurica in Mt Amanos in S Turkey, but we found no hybrids there. It differs frp P. daurica not only in morphology...but also in ploidy... P. kesrouanensis also grows together with P. mascula...where we did not find hybrids....
Paeonia turcica was described as new by David and Cullen (1965) due to its having styles and stigma that are shorter than those of P. kesrouanensis and curved near the base (rather than curved only at the apex in P. kesrouanensis). the length of style and stigma in P. turcica is, however, in the variation range of those in P. kesrouanensis....

Book  (2007)  Page(s) pl. 209.  Includes photo(s).
 
Paeonia turcica. Turkish Peony: This endemic peony, also known as Bear Rose [ayıgülü] is founnd on a few mountains in south western Anatolia, where it flowers in summer. From Çılıkara, in June 1999.

Book  (2007)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 353.  Includes photo(s).
 
Paeoniaceae (Şakayıkgiller), Paeonia turcica (Türk şakayığı), Turkish peony. 5 petals. South-western Turkey. 1500-1800 m. Perennial herb. Endemic.

Book  (2005)  Page(s) 187-189.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mediterranean Region. Gölgeli Mountains. Denizli
...a small mountain chain rising up to 2420m....Additionally in the dry and open areas in the forest belt and towards the tree limit one finds....Paeonia turcica....
Globally endangered species...Paeonia turcica (END, V) [Endangered, can be damaged)

Book  (2005)  Page(s) 197.  
 
Mediterranean Region. Dokuzgöl Mountains. Antalya.
...rising up to 2465m....cedar forests...
Globally endangered species....Paeonia turcica (END, V) [Endangered, can be damaged]

Book  (Jan 1999)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Paeonia kesrouanensis very similar to P. mascula... first discovered in 1936 at Kesrouan in western Lebanon by J Thi

Book  (Jan 1999)  Page(s) 37.  
 
Paeonia turcica is found in pine forests in south-western Turkey. It is very like P. kesrouanensis and P. mascula.