Primula sonchifolia Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 32: 266. 1885.
Section Petiolares, Subsection Sonchifolia
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Delavay 110 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024302) and Paris
Type specimen ssp emeiensis: Yang 54321 resides at IBSC C. M. Hu in Chen & C. M. Hu, Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 59(2): 292. 1990.
Type P. drymophila (syn) specimen: Wilson 1081 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024303) Craib, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 11: 170. 1919.
Type P. gratissima (syn) specimen: Forrest 2167 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024306, E00284624, E00284627) Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 4: 219. 1908.
Type P. taraxacoides (syn) specimen: Maire 2617 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024307) Balf. f. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 9: 49. 1915.
Type P. sonchifolia var atrocoerulea (syn) specimen: Forrest 25652 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00284626,E00024304) and at Smithsonian (specimen 00116508) W. W. Smith in W. W. Smith & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 15: 255. 1927.
Two subspecies are currently recongized: P. sonchifolia ssp sonchifolia and P. sonchifolia ssp emeiensis which has deeply cut pinnate leaves. This species is found through North Burma, NW Yunnan to West Sichuan. It is quite variable, as the number of synonyms attest, but it is distinguished by the shallowly lobed calyx.
