Primula wenshanensis F.H.Chen & C.M.Hu
Section Chartacea
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Feng 22284 resides at Kunming (holotype specimen KUN484139) and NAS (specimen NAS00072131).
Epithet: Named for the type location.
Distribution: Wenshan Xian and Laojunshan, Yunnan.
Compared with P. petelotii in the original description, but with the leaf base obtuse or subround, a cup shaped calyx, 5-6mm, barely parted to the middle. Leaves elliptic to obovate-elliptic or suborbicular, glabrous, margin dentate with lateral veins in 6-9 pairs at a 90 degree angle to the midvein. Scape 5-9 cm, glandular, with an umbel of 2-7 flowers, deep violet, 2-lobed, with a dentate margin. Bracts lanceolate. From mixed forest at 2000 m. In 2022, Dan Wei, et al. proposed that P. nghialoensis is a synonym of P. wenshanensis, at the same time describing a very similar species, P. tsaiana. Currently I have kept these species separate.
