Primula mallophylla Balf.f., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 9: 181. 1916.
Section Proliferae
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Farges 1181 resides at KEW (specimens K000750237, K000750238) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024073, E00024799) and Paris (specimens P00649662, P00649663, P00649664).
Epithet: Named for the broader leaves than related species.
Distribution: East Sichuan (Chongqing), China.
An efarinose, candelabra species with rose-purple flowers, distinguished by the bracts which are narrowly elliptic, leaflike in the outer bracts and linear, very long, reaching the beyond the calyx in the inner bracts. Compare with related species, P. stenodonta which is similar but has an oblanceolate leaf blade which has a margin that is regularly denticulate. P. mallophylla has an oblong leaf blade with an erose-denticulate margin.
