Primula petelotii W. W. Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 16: 226. 1931.
Section Chartacea
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Pételot s.n. Feb. 1930 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024308) and Paris (specimen P00649669,P00649668 ) and NY Botanic Garden (specimen NY00329563) and US National Herbarium (specimen US00116498) and California Academy of Sciences (specimen CAS0006253) and Missouri Botanical Garden (specimen MO-345753).
Additional specimen: SE Yunnan Exped. GBOWS946 at South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou.
Additional reference: C. M. Hu & G. Hao, Edinburgh J. Bot. 68: 298. 2011. Includes an addendum to the description.
Epithet: Named for the French botanist Paul Alfred Pételot.
Distribution: Vietnam, SE Yunnan, China
This species was originally thought to be endemic to Mt Chapa or Fansipan (Phan Xi Păng), Vietnam but it has also been discovered in Yunnan on the same range running NW-SE from Fansipan, near the border of Vietnam. P. petelotii has bright rose flowers, petals entire but notched, and leathery, ovate leaves , petiole not winged. After flowering, each scape slowly bends toward the ground and starts to grow a new plant. Roots appear on the plantlets just above the bracts. See related species, P. nghialoensis and P. fenghwaiana.
