Primula involucrata Wall. ex Duby

Species

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Characteristics

Herbs perennial, efarinose. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole ca. as long as to 3 X as long as leaf blade; leaf blade ovate to oblong or suborbicular, 1--3.5 X 5--22 cm, subfleshy, sparsely minutely glandular, base cuneate, rounded to slightly cordate, margin entire or remotely obscure denticulate, apex obtuse to rounded. Scapes 10--30 cm; umbels 2--6-flowered; bracts oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 8--15 X 1.5--4 mm, prolonged below into blunt, 4--7 mm auricles. Pedicel 1--3.5 cm, elongating to 8 cm in fruit. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 5--10 mm, parted to 1/3 or slightly below, 5-ribbed; lobes lanceolate to triangular, glandular ciliolate, apex acute. Corolla white, pink, or purple; limb 1.5--2 cm wide; lobes obovate, deeply emarginate. Pin flowers: corolla tube 1--1.2 cm; stamens ca. 4 mm above base of corolla tube; style slightly exserted. Thrum flowers: corolla tube 1.2--1.4 cm; stamens toward apex of corolla tube; style slightly shorter than calyx. Capsule oblong, 1.25--1.5 X as long as calyx. 2n = 22, 44.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves form a ring. The leaves are oval and 1-4 cm long by 5-22 cm wide. The base is wedge shaped or heart shaped. There are 2-6 flowers in a group. They are white, pink or purple.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature width (meter) 0.2
Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Environment

Grows in abundance in moist meadows flushed with melt water from snow and glaciers, 4,000-5,000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in wet meadows between 3,000-4,500 m above sea level in SW China.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 4-9
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-7

Usage

The fresh leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 28
Germination temperacture (C°) 20
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Images

Primula involucrata unspecified picture

Distribution

Primula involucrata world distribution map, present in China and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:702102-1
WFO ID wfo-0001106285
COL ID 4MCY9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Evotrochis involucrata Primula involucrata Primula involucrata subsp. involucrata

Lower taxons

Primula involucrata subsp. yargongensis