Primula muscoides Hooker f. ex. G. Watt, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 20:15. 1884. , Tab. 4D
Section Minutissimae
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Type specimen: J. D. Hooker & Thomspn 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. The last image shows the relative sizes of the flowers of the two species.
