Herbarium catalogue
Family: Primulaceae
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Primula calderiana Balf.f. & R.E.Cooper
Syntype of Primula roylei Balf.f. & W.W.Sm.
Collector/Expedition: Watt, George
Collection number: 5376
Collection date: 20th May 1881
Country/Territory: India:Sikkim
Collecting locality: India:Sikkim:Sandukfu to ?Takchungma
Habitat: scattered over damp grass hill
Description: Growing singly; stem short, erect surrounded by long scales 1in in diameter & 1.5 to 3in. long coated with yellow farina. Leaves sessile, oblong, spathulate, broadly sheathing, or ovate oblong sheathing, subacute, erose, green, not mealy, erect, crowded & confined 3--4 inches long, more than 1/2 the length of the peduncle. Peduncle generally present but as in the English primrose often wanting, the pedicels there being very long..? ..forming a whorl not spurred ovate acuminate closely adpressed to pedicels & about 1/3 the length. Calyx large wide loose dark brown. erose, green, not mealy , erect, crowded & confined 3--4 inches long, more than half the length of the peduncle. Peduncle generally present
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SHEET
Barcode: E00024671
Herbarium region: 5D (Bhutan, Sikkim & Darjeeling)
Number of sheets: 1
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