Primula szechuanica Pax, Pflanzenr. (Engler) Primul. 106. 1905.
Section Crystallophlomis
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Pratt 849 resides at British Museum (specimen BM000996942) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024260, E00024257) and Harvard University (specimen 00073560) and KEW (specimen K000750183) and Paris (specimen P04544214).
P. declinis (syn): Balf.f. & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 13: 9. 1920. Type specimen: Forrest 16290 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024259, E00024258).
P. decurva (syn): Balf.f. & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 13: 9. 1920. Type specimen: Forrest 12551 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024256, E00024255) and KEW (specimen K000750182) and Smithsonian (specimen 00116465).
P. gagnepainiana (syn): Hand.-Mazz., Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 1923, lx. 98. Type specimen: Handel-Mazzetti 6707 resides at Universität Wien (specimen WU 0059752) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024253) and Paris (specimen P04567546). Type specimen: Wilson 4038 resides at Paris (specimen P04907219) and Harvard University (specimen 00073542) and Herbarium Hamburgense (specimens HBG510949, HBG510950).
Epithet: Named for the Chinese province of Sichuan.
Distribution: W Sichuan, Yunnan, China.
P. szechuanica is an efarinose species with reflexed (bent backwards) petals and leaves with an attenuate base. It grows in meadows and forest margins. See also other yellow flowered species: advena (Tibet), aemula (patent corolla lobes), handeliana (patent corolla lobes, Shaanxi), tzetsouensis (distinct, long petiole), soongii (patent corolla lobes) and orbicularis (farinose).
