Primula concinna Watt

Herbs perennial, usually less than 2.5 cm tall, forming dense cushionlike mats. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole usually indistinct, rarely ca. 1/2 as long as leaf blade; leaf blade oblanceolate to spatulate or occasionally obovate, 6--25 X 2--6 mm, abaxially densely yellow farinose, adaxially efarinose or sometimes scarcely farinose, base attenuate, margin nearly entire or crenulate above middle, rarely distinctly dentate, apex obtuse to acute. Scapes less than 1 cm, sometimes obsolete, 1--6-flowered; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 2--6 mm. Pedicel 4--10 mm. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate, 3--5 mm, ± farinose, parted to middle; lobes lanceolate to broadly linear, apex obtuse to acute. Corolla pale rose-purple or white; tube slightly longer than calyx; limb 7--10 mm wide; lobes obovate, deeply emarginate. Pin flowers: stamens at middle of corolla tube; style reaching annulus. Thrum flowers with positions reciprocal. Capsule oblong, nearly as long as calyx. Fl. Jun.

Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan), S. Tibet.

S Xizang [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Sikkim].

4000-5200 m

Damp meadows, moraines; 4000--5000 m.

Primula farinosa Linnaeus var. concinna (Watt) Pax.

Flowering in June.

Primula concinna is close relative of Primula rhodochroa, but differs from the latter in its leaf blade entire or crenulate above middle (vs. denticulate to dentate), calyx 3-5 mm long (vs. 5-7 mm), lobes lanceolate to broadly linear (vs. ovate-triangular).

Primula concinna is occurring in S Xizang of China, Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Sikkim.

Herbs perennial, usually less than 2.5 cm tall, forming dense cushionlike mats. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole usually indistinct, rarely ca. half as long as leaf blade; leaf blade oblanceolate to spatulate or occasionally obovate, 6-20 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, abaxially densely yellow farinose, adaxially efarinose or sometimes scarcely farinose, base attenuate, margin nearly entire or crenulate above middle, rarely distinctly dentate, apex obtuse to acute. Scapes less than 1 cm tall, sometimes obsolete, 1-5-flowered; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 2-5 mm long. Pedicel 4-10 mm long. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate, 3-5 mm long, ± farinose, parted to middle; lobes lanceolate to broadly linear, apex obtuse to acute. Corolla pale rose-purple or white; tube slightly longer than calyx; limb 7-11 mm wide; lobes obovate, deeply emarginate. Pin flowers: stamens at middle of corolla tube; style reaching annulus. Thrum flowers with positions reciprocal. Capsule oblong, nearly as long as calyx.

Growing in damp meadows, moraines; 3900-4900 m.