Primula longipes Freyn & Sint., Bull. Herb. Boissier 4: 141 1896.
Section Crystallophlomis
Type specimen: Sintenis 7307 resides at Universität Wien, Vienna (Holotype specimen WU 0069730 ) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024786, E00024014) and British Museum (specimen BM000996828) and National Botanic Garden of Belgium (specimen BR0000005297337) and California Academy of Sciences (specimen DS 421670) and Herbarium Hamburgense (specimen HBG508254) and Paris (specimens P05278143, P04544329, P04544330, P04544331) and KEW (specimen K000732926) and Swedish Museum of Natural History (specimen S-G-5040).
P. nivalis Pallas var. longipes (Freyn & Sint.) (syn): Kusn., Fl. Cauc. Crit. i. 115. Type specimen: Sintensis 7307 resides as above.
P. nivalis Pallas var. farinosa: (syn ) Koch non Schrenk, Linnaea 23:617. 1850. Type specimen: Koch s.n. (Urgestein) resides at ?
Epithet: Named for ?
Distribution: Turkey.
Primula longipes is a close relative of P. nivalis but appears to differ from the typical P. nivalis species by the farina and thin texture of the leaves. It is quite similar to P. nivalis var. farinosa from further East in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang but supposed to differ by the longer petioles and thin leaf texture. P. longipes forms a resting bud with persistent bud scales. Leaves oblong, rounded at the apex, with a dentate, farinose margin and a broadly winged petiole equalling the blade, underneath white farinose, thickly on the margins. Flowers in one or two umbels, annulate, violet with a white eye. Capsule 2-3 times the calyx.
