Primula muscoides Hook.f. ex G.Watt
Section Minutissimae
Link to Flora of China description
Link to Nepal checklist
Type specimen: J. D. Hooker & Thomson Primula no. 23 resides at KEW (specimen K000750282) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024501) and Botanische Staatssammlung Munchen (specimen M0173558).
Epithet: Named for its moss like tufts.
Distribution: C&E Nepal, SE Tibet (Xizang), Bhutan, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
P. muscoides is an extremely tiny high-altitude species. The homostylous flowers are pale violet with a white tube or pure white. Leaves are sessile, efarinose and broad at the apex with 3-7 acute lobes. See related P. tenuiloba which is larger flowered and with lobes longer, very narrow and cleft into two linear spreading lobes.
