Primula chartacea Franch., Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) i. (1895) 64.
Section Chartacea
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Delavay 4914 (Long-ki) resides at Paris (holotype specimen P04571799). Delavay s.n. (Tchen-fong-chan) resides at Paris (specimens P04571801, P04571803, P04571804, P04571805, P04571806) and Swedish Museum of Natural History (specimens S09-46827, S09-47063).
Epithet: Named for the papery texture of the leaves.
Distribution: N Yunnan, China.
The type specimens of this species are from Long-ki in bamboo thickets and from Tchen-fong-chan on shady rocks, but both locations are in the extreme North-North East part of Yunnan. This species has the typical efarinose and papery-leathery leaves of this small Section. Flowers are rose, leaves ovate with long narrow petioles. This species is distinguished from P. lacerata and P. veitchiana by having emarginate corolla lobes rather than fimbriate lobes. See related species P. lacerata, P. veichiana, P. petelotii and fenghwaiana.
