Primula cicutariifolia Pax
Section Ranunculoides
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Limpricht 822 resides at B (still exists?) and WU (not online) and E (specimen E00024331 (photo of WU specimen)).
P. erodioides (syn): Schltr., Type specimen: K.K. Tsoong 3285 resides at B (still exists?) and PE and E (specimen E00024330).
P. ranunculoides var. minor (syn): F.H.Chen, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1:178. 1951. Lectotype specimen: C.X. Zhong s.n. resides at LBG (specimen LBG00118043).
Epithet: Named for leaves divided like the genus Cicuta?
Distribution: Anhui, Zhejiang, China.
A biennial species with odd-pinnate compound leaves with 3-17 pinnae. Solitary umbels of homostylous flowers with lobes cuneate-oblong and apex emarginate. Grows along water sides and broadleaf deciduous forest edges, at low elevations, 900m and below. It previously included P. ranunculoides as a synonym, but research has shown the two to be distinct. P. erodiodes represents a collection from Anhui. Related P. qiandaoensis differs by being heterostylous.
