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.
Primula bracteosa Craib
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Lamiales |
Family | Primulaceae |
Genus | Primula |
Species | Primula bracteosa Craib |
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