Primula scapigera Craib
Section Petiolares
Link to Flora of China description
Link to Nepal checklist
Type specimen: Watt 7013, 5331 resides at E (specimens E00024653, E00024654).
P. petiolaris Wall. var. scapigera (syn): Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 3:494. 1882.
Epithet: Named for being scapose.
Distribution: West Bengal, Sikkim, Nepal, Tibet (Xizang).
This species is distinguished from its relatives by being efarinose, having glandular-pubescent pedicels and scape, the scape elongating in fruit, and having an exannulate corolla. Leaves dimorphic, oblong-spathulate and petiole attenuate, later more ovate, truncate or cordate at the base, with a distinct petiole, rounded at the apex, irregularly dentate to denticulate at the margin. Scape to 4cms, lengthening in fruit, glandular-pubescent, with 2 to many flowers. Calyx widely campanulate, cut to the middle, glandular-ciliate. Flowers pink with a yellow eye, surrounded by white, exannulate, heteromorphic. Common in the area around Tonglu and towards Sandakhphu, West Bengal (type locations). Also there are 2 collections identified as this species from Nyalam county, Tibet (Xizang). Reports from Bhutan unconfirmed. If you have an image of this species from Tibet, please contact the webmaster.
