Primula erratica W.W.Sm.
Section Aleuritia
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Farrer 40 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimens E00024126, E00024127) and British Museum (specimen BM000996913).
Epithet: Named for its stoloniferous habit.
Distribution: S Gansu, NW Sichuan.
P. erratica is a variable species, sometimes efarinose or sparingly white farinose and with bracts that may be slightly auricled, pouched or only thicked at the base. It is stoloniferous, 3-10 cm tall, leaves to 4 cm long, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, rounded at the apex, tapering into a very short, winged petiole, margin sharply denticulate, efarinose above, sometimes sparingly farinose below. Scape is slightly farinose at the apex, with an umbel of 1-8 emarginate rose, annulate, heteromorphic flowers. First collected near Siku, Gansu.
