Primula agleniana I. B. Balfour & Forrest in I. B. Balfour, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 13: 3. 1920.
Section Crystallophlomis, Subsection Agleniana
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Forrest 18875 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024606) and the Smithsonian (specimen 00116447).
P. agleniana var. alba: Forrest Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 14: 32. 1923. Type specimen: Forrest 20081 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024607) and British Museum (specimen BM000996949) and KEW (specimen K000732978) and Paris (specimen P04571309) and Smithsonian (specimen 00116448). A white variant which may have some flushing of rose.
P. agleniana var. atrocrocea: Kingdon-Ward Ann. Bot. (London) 44:123, 1930. Type specimen: Kingdon-Ward 6820 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024608). A dwarf, deep yellow variant.
P. agleniana var. thearosa (syn): Kingdon-Ward, Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 44: 122. 1930. Type specimen: Ward 6820 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024609, E00024610, E00024819).
Additional reference: Boardman, Chambers, Eveleigh, Richards, The Plantsman 9:88. 2010. Re-elevated to distinct species stauts.
Epithet: Named for ?
Distribution: SE Tibet (Xizang), NW Yunnan, Myanmar.
Primula agleniana is a superb species. The plants form large resting buds 2-4cm long from which the flowering scape emerges before the leaves have expanded. The leaves are spear shaped, pointed at the tip, serrate on the edges and covered with farina below. The flowers are exannulate, campanulate, white, yellow or pink in color and with farina on the face. The last three images below represent possible hybrids between P. agleniana var. atrocrocea and P. thearosa. See related: P. thearosa, P. elizabethae, P. falcifolia, P. obliqua.
