Primula baldschuanica B. Fedtsch., Conspectus Florae Turkestanicae [O.A. Fedchenko & B.A. Fedchenko] v. 6 (1913).
Section Aleuritia
Type specimen: Regel s.n., 1883 resides at V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia (LE) and Harvard (specimen 00073529) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024026).
Epithet: Named for the type location Baldschuan (Boldzhuan), Tajikistan.
Distribution: Tajikistan, S Uzbekistan, E Afghanistan.
Initally considered P. farinosa, this species is distinguished by violet flowers with narrowly obcordate corolla lobes. Similar to P. algida, which has a shorter corolla tube, broader bracts and a more compact umbel. Leaves are obovate, rounded at the apex, with a broadly winged petiole and crenate-denticulate margin. White farina thickly present under the leaves but there are some forms where the farina is almost absent (forma efarinosa). Bracts are linear to linear-lanceolate and gibbous at the base.
