Primula kawasimae Hara
Section Aleuritia
Type specimen: Tatewaki & Takahasi 22724 resides at TI and SAP, not online.
P. kawasimae f. albiflora: (Tatw.) Hara, J. Jap.
Bot. xvii. 634 (1941). Type specimen: Tatewaki & Takahasi 22780 resides at SAP, not online. A white variant.
P. borealis auct., non Duby (synonym): Sugawara, Ill. Fl. Saghal. 4:1521. 1940.
Reference: Russian Academy of Sciences Far Eastern Branch, Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Flora of the Russian Far East, Addenda and corrigenda to Vascular plants of the Soviet Far East Vol. 1-8 (1985-1996)", Vladivostok, 2006, pp. 132-133.
Reference Paper: N.K. Kovtonyuk and A.A. Goncharov, Phylogenetic Relationships in the Genus Primula L. (Primulaceae) Inferred from the ITS Region Sequences of Nuclear rDNA", Genetika, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 758–765.
Epithet: Named for Mount Kawashima (now Mt. Chechetka), east coast of Sakhalin.
Distribution: Far East Russia, Sakhalin, Kamchatka.
Has been equated to P. borealis Duby, though it was noted in the Flora of North America that the complex centered on P. modesta in Far East Russia and Japan was difficult to distinguish from that centered on P. borealis as they are morphologically similar but differing in chromosome number. Distinguished from P. borealis by the notched leaf margin with sharp, curved teeth, petiole attenuate and non-saccate bracts. P. mistassinica has less conspicuously serrate leaves and long-exserted capsules. More recently, distinguished by genetic analysis, and found to be near to P. bukukunica and P. fauriei (modesta) -See reference paper.
