Primula sunhangii

Description. Herbs perennial, glabrous, efarinose. Leaves 5 - 10, all basal in a rosette; petiole green, basal white to pink, 1 - 5.6 cm long, 0.2 - 0.4 cm diam.; leaf blade green, ovate or oblong, 0.8 - 4.8 cm long, 0.5 - 2 cm wide, papery, base truncate or acute, margin entire or slightly denticulate, apex obtuse to rounded. Scapes 5 - 19 cm in length; umbels 2 - 4 - flowered; bracts 5, lanceolate, 5 - 10 mm long, 1 - 3 mm wide, membranous, base prolonged below into 3 - 6 mm auriculate appendage. Pedicel 0.5 - 3.5 cm. Calyx 5 - 7 mm in length, 3 mm diam., cylindrical, parted to 1 / 4 to 1 / 3; lobes lanceolate, apex narrowly acute. Corolla funnel-form, pink or purple; tube 8 - 10 mm in length, 8 - 10 mm diam., limb 1 - 2 cm diam.; lobes obovate, deeply emarginated apex. Pin flowers: corolla tube ca. 8.5 mm; stamens ca. 3.5 mm above base of corolla tube; the style is not or slightly exerted. Thrum flowers: corolla tube ca. 1 cm; stamens toward apex of corolla tube; the style is slightly shorter than calyx. Capsule cylindric, apex irregular dehisces. (Fig. 2)