Primula laciniata Pax & K. Hoffmann, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 98. 1920.
Section Armerina
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Limpricht 1799 (syntype Limpricht 1958) resides at Universität Wien (specimens WU 0059741, WU 0059742) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024142, E00024143) and Swedish Museum of Natural History (specimen S09-47141).
P. laciniata grows in wet meadows or near springs in Western Sichuan near Kangding. It has been collected only a few times and is remarkable for its irregular pinnatifidly incised leaves shown in the herbarium specimens. It was originally associated with P. blinii because of the leaf margin, but it is more closely associated with P. gemmifera. Leaves are oblong with a long petiole, attenuate base, obtuse or rounded apex and an irregular pinnatifidly incised margin. Flowers are pink-purple 3-10 in 1-2 whorls on a scape which may be farinose at the apex. Bracts are lanceolate with a slightly gibbous base.
