Primula duthieana Balf.f. & W.W.Sm.
section Crystallophlomis, subsection Crystallophlomis
Link to Flora of Pakistan description
Multiple sytypes from K listed, lectotype proposed to be: Inayat 21979 resides at KEW (specimen K000750273) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024558)
P. moorcroftiana var. flavida: W.W.Sm., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 19:172, 1936. Type specimen: Ludlow & Sherriff 1482 resides at E (specimen not online) and BM (specimen BM000996869).
Epithet: Named for John Firminger Duthie.
Distribution: North Pakistan, Kashmir.
Originally associated with Primula stuartii as a variation but later thought to be a yellow variety of Primula moorcroftiana (P. macrophylla). A typical species within section Crystallophlomis, with lanceolate, acute leaves, farinose below on the margins, finely crenulate and somewhat recurved margins and a broadly winged petiole. Scape to 18cm, with a single umbel of 6-20 pale yellow with a darker yellow eye, annulate flowers, with entire or slightly emarginate corolla lobes. Calyx dark blackish. Resting bud inconspicuous and farinose. It is locally endemic to the Himalayan range from Kaghan, east through Deosai. Yasin J. Nasir proposed in the Flora of Pakistan that the lectotype be designated as Chapri, 18.7.1899, Inayat 21979 (K, iso E), however the collection from Chapri online at K and E has a date of 27.7.1897. Another specimen from E collected at Chapri has a date of 28.7.1899 (E00024563).
