Primula bracteosa Craib

Evergreen sparsely farinose or efarinose plants; winter buds and persistent bud scales absent. Leaves at flowering rugose, spathulate or broadly obovate, 3-7 x 1.5-2.5cm, obtuse, base tapering into short broadly winged petiole, obtuse, margin denticulate, glabrous and efarinose or sparsely farinose on both surfaces. Leaves after flowering broadly ovate, 4-6 x 2.5-4.5cm, truncate or cordate at base with reddish narrowly winged petiole 3-8cm. Peduncle at flowering l-4cm, sometimes sparsely farinose at apex, bearing a single umbel of 3-17 flowers; pedicels in flower 1.5-3.5cm; bracts linear-lanceolate 3-10mm, accompanied (in fruit only) by one or a few broadly ovate leafy bracts up to 2.5cm, on petioles 1.5-4cm. Calyx campanulate, keeled at base, 7-10mm, puberulous, farinose or not, cut to middle into entire, ovate-lanceolate teeth with prominent midrib. Corolla pink to magenta with greenish-yellow eye surrounded by white, tube 2-2.5 x length of calyx, limb 2-3cm, lobes broadly obovate, margin sinuous or trilobed. Capsule globose, dehiscing irregularly by a crumbling membrane.

 Ha, Thimphu, Punakha, Tongsa and Tashigang districts.