Primula duclouxii Petitm., Monde Pl. sér. 2, 10: 7. 1908.
Section Monocarpicae
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Ducloux 2293 resides at Paris (specimens P00649655, P04567386).
P. forbesii Franch. var. brevipes (syn): Bonati, Bull Soc Bot France 56:465 1909. Type specimen: Ducloux 56 resides at Paris?
P. forbesii Franch. subsp. duclouxii (Petitm. (syn): W.W.Sm. & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 16: 26. 1928. Type specimen: Ducloux 2293 resides Paris (specimens P00649655, P04567386).
P. refracta (syn): Hand.-Mazz., Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 1920, lvii. 173. Type specimen: Handel-Mazzetti s.n. Hsi-schan, Yunnan 2300m resides at Universität Wien (specimen WU 0059753).
Epithet: Named for the collector Ducloux.
Distribution: Yunnan, China.
Found near Kunming, but blooming in winter, so not often sought out. This is a farinose species, sparingly pilose similar to P. malacoides and once thought to be near to P. forbesii. It grows in shaded moist limestone rock crevices and is distinguished by its refracted fruiting pedicels (downward pointing). Leaves are petiolate, oblong to ovate with a rounded to cordate base, farinose below though becoming efarinose. The scape is short (1-6cm) and supports 1 or 2 whorls of 3-10 rose flowers with a farinose calyx.
