Primula valentiniana Handel-Mazzetti, Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl., Anz. 59: 249. 1922.
Section Amethystina
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Handel-Mazzetti 9057 resides at University of Vienna (specimen WU0059698) and Paris (specimen P04907166).
Epithet: Named for the missionary Père Valentin.
Distribution: China, Tibet (Xizang), Yunnan, Burma (Myanmar).
P. valentiniana is efarinose and has crimson to bright red flowers, which expand abruptly from the calyx into a cup shape with entire lobes and slightly hairy inside. The calyx is cup shaped and parted to the middle into triangular lobes. Leaves are glabrous, obovate to oblanceolate with a winged petiole and undulate-denticulate margin. See related P. kingii which differs in having a longer calyx and being glabrous in the corolla tube. If you have images of this species, please contact the webmaster. 如果你有这个物种的图像，请与网站管理员联系。
