Primula rotundifolia Wall.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Primula

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, with withered leaves and few bud scales at base. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 1--3 X as long as leaf blade; leaf blade suborbicular, 4--12 cm wide, abaxially yellow farinose or occasionally efarinose, adaxially sparsely glandular, base deeply cordate, margin irregularly coarse dentate, apex rounded to obscurely apiculate; lateral veins subpinnate. Scape 10--25(--30) cm, minutely glandular or occasionally farinose toward apex; umbels 1 or 2, superimposed, 2--16-flowered; bracts linear to subulate, 0.5--1.5 cm, densely glandular. Pedicel 1--2 cm, elongating to 3 cm in fruit, farinose, minutely glandular. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate, 5--6 mm, farinose, parted to near base; lobes oblong-lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse; veins 3. Corolla pale purplish pink; tube ca. 2 X as long as calyx; limb 1.2--1.9 cm wide; lobes suborbicular to broadly ovate, margin entire to obscurely crenulate. Pin flowers: stamens at middle of corolla tube; style ca. as long as tube. Thrum flowers with positions reciprocal. Capsule oblong, ca. 1 cm. Fl. Jun. 2n = 22.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.4
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 28
Germination temperacture (C°) 20
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Distribution

Primula rotundifolia world distribution map, present in China and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:702535-1
WFO ID wfo-0001105533
COL ID 4MDCW
BDTFX ID 53159
INPN ID 115855
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Synonyms

Aleuritia rotundifolia Primula cardiophylla Primula cordata Primula roxburghii Primula cordifolia Primula rotundifolia