Primula pseudodenticulata Pax, Pflanzenr. (Engler) Primul. 91. 1905.
Section Denticulata
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: A. Henry 10570A resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024117) and British Museum (specimen BM000996895) and KEW (specimen K000750091).
P. auriculata Lamarck var. polyphylla (syn): Franch., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 32: 271. 1885. Type specimen: Delavay 5 (Lankong, pres de Tali, 17 Sept. 1882) resides at Paris (specimen P00649673).
P. polyphylla (syn): Petitm., Monde Pl. sér. 2, 10: 6. 1908. Type specimen: Delavay 5 (Lankong, pres de Tali, 17 Sept. 1882) resides at Paris (specimen P00649673).
P. stolonifera (syn): Balf.f., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 9: 47. 1915. Type specimen: Forrest 1818 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024118) and KEW (specimen K000732817) and Smithsonian (specimen 00116517).
P. denticulata Smith subsp. stolonifera Balf.f. (syn): W.W.Sm. & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 16:21. 1928.
P. pseudodenticulata Pax subsp. polyphylla (Franchet) (syn): W.W.Sm. & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 16:22. 1928..
Epithet: Named for resembling Primula denticulata.
Distribution: SW Sichuan, Yunnan, China.
Primula pseudodenticulata grows in wet places. The original holotype was at Berlin and is probably destroyed. Similar to Primula denticulata but without basal bud scales, glabrous and efarinose leaves with less denticulate margin and smaller flowers. Also similar to P. monticola, but without basal bud scales. This species can develop vigorous stolons up to 6cm long. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly obovate-oblong, tapering to a winged petiole short to almost as long as the blade, rounded at the apex, obscurely crenate-dentate on the margin, glabrous on both surfaces. Scapes to 35cm, farinose toward the apex, with a capitate umbel of many pale rose to lavender blue annulate flowers with a yellow or orange eye. See related Primula monticola.
