Primula deflexa Duthie, Gard. Chron., ser. 3. 39: 229. 1906.
Section Muscarioides
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: E. Wilson 4035 resides at KEW (specimens K000732997, K000732998, K000732999, K000733000, K000750001) and Herbarium Hamburgense (specimens HBG508221, HBG508222) and Harvard University Herbarium (specimen 00073534) and Paris (specimen P04571706).
P. conica (syn): I. B. Balfour & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 9: 157. 1916. Type specimen: Forrest 12707 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024198) and KEW (specimen K000732991).
P. muscarioides Hemsley subsp. conica (I. B. Balfour & Forrest) W. W. Smith & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 16: 29. 1928.
Epithet: Named for the deflexed corolla.
Distribution: W. Sichuan, SE Tibet (Xizang), NW Yunnan, China.
This species has a short spike of purple-blue, blue or rarely white (one image below) flowers. Determined by the efarinous, hairy flower stem and efarinous leaves with white hairs on both sides but especially on the mid-rib and veins. Grows in wet sites. Synonym P. conica can not be distinguished by any characters from P. deflexa. Compare with other Muscarioides section species that have hairy scapes: P. gracilenta and P. euchaites.
