Primula reticulata Wall., Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 21 1824.
Section Sikkimensis
Link to Flora of China description
Link to Flora of Bhutan description
Link to Nepal checklist
Type specimen: Wallich 608 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024724) and British Museum (specimen BM000521883 and NY Botanical Garden (specimen NY00329565) and Herbarium Hamburgense (specimen HBG508203) and Philadelphia Herbarium (specimen 22106 pro parte) and KEW (specimen K001111403).
P. altissima (syn): D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 78. 1825. Type specimen: Wallich 608 resides as above.
P. reticulata Wall. var. didyma (W.W.Sm.) (syn): A.J.Richards, Primula 210 (1993).
P. didyma (syn): W.W.Sm., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 16: 228. 1931. Type specimen: Dhwoj 453 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024718) and British Museum (specimens BM000521983, BM000521984) and Smithsonian (specimen 00116467).
P. speciosa (syn of P. didyma): D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 78. 1825. Type specimen: Wallich (Gosaingsthan Nepalensium) May be extant. Red flowered.
Additional reference: Wallich catalogue #608.
Epithet: Named for the reticulated leaves.
Distribution: Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, SE Tibet and Myanmar(?).
In many ways similar to P. alpicola, but with a different leaf base and more slender, less broad flowers held in one whorl. Though the leaves are described as having a cordate base, they may also have subcordate, oblique or rounded bases which are abruptly decurrent, even on the same plant. P. didyma is a red flowered species similar in every way to P. reticulata, found in Nepal. P. speciosa is likely to be the same as P. didyma but the material on which it was based no longer exists. The Flora of China lists P. reticulata for Myanmar (Burma), but this needs to be checked.
