Primula miyabeana T.Itô & Kawak., in Miyabe Festschrift. 1, t. 29 (1911), drawing
Section Proliferae
Link to Flora of Taiwan description
Type specimen: Kawakami & Mori s.n. Nov. 1908 (Mt. Morrison, Taiwan). resides at TNS - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan (specimen 61543).
P. japonica (A. Gray) var. miyabeanum (syn): A. Ito, Encycl. Jap. 4:778. 1880.
Aleuritia miyabeana (T.Itô & Kawak.) (syn): J. Sojak, Čas. Nár. Muz. Praze, Rada Přír. 148(3-4): 206. 1979.
Additional Reference: Craib in Bot. Mag. t. 8606, painting.
Epithet: Named for Prof. Dr. Kingo Miyabe.
Distribution: Taiwan, endemic.
A species closely related to P. poissonii and morphologically similar to P. japonica and P. burmanica and like those species, with farina present only on the inside of the calyx, (yellow in this species) but distinguished by the gradually ampliate corolla tube. The flowers are homostylous. White varieies are often encountered in the wild.
