Primula septemloba Franch.
Section Cortusoides
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Delavay 12 resides at Paris (specimen P04544807).
P. septemloba var. minor: Ward, Ann. Bot. (Oxford). 44: 123. 1930. Type specimen: Ward 8346 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024424). Smaller in size. Short homostyle - stamens and style in lower half of corolla tube (Delei valley).
P. septemloba hort. nomen.
Epithet: Named for the seven lobed leaves.
Distribution: Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Assam.
Resembling P. geraniifolia, but with homostylous and more tubular flowers. It grows in moist, shady situations in forest. Leaves orbicular, deeply cordate at the base, palmately 7-9 lobed with the lobes dived into lobules, rounded at the apex and irregularly dentate, thinly covered with septate hairs above and with spreading hairs below, along the veins. Petiole distinct, covered in dense tawny hairs. Scape to 50cm, hairy, with 1-3 umbels of 3-6 purple-rose flowers with a long tube. Bracts linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong. Calyx purple tinged, glabrous or sparsely glandular pubescent, parted to middle into spreading lanceolate lobes.
