Herbarium catalogue

Family: Primulaceae

Primula fea Kingdon-Ward

Holotype of Primula fea Kingdon-Ward

Collector/Expedition: Kingdon-Ward, F.

Collection number: 7020

Collection date: 30th June 1926

Country/Territory: Myanmar

Collecting locality: Seinghku Wang

Habitat: Embedded in moss on lichen, in crevices of the otherwise almost bare gramite cliffs facing due South. Also scattered on precipitous broken slopes of turf and rock.

Description: Flowers blue in bud, mauve when open. with crimson tuve (almost exactly the colour of Isopyrun grandiflorum) anthers cream. Scape with one of two flowers. Leaves minute, regularly incised, slightly hairy alone on long more of less sheathing petioles. The dark almost black purple calyx is partly powdered with very fine greenish yellow meal, well seen with a low poer of microscope. The stamens are inserted at the base of the tube, on very short filaments. In short styled flowers the style just exceeds the stamens in length, in long styled flowers the stigma just reaches the top of the tube. Capsule glandualr. Calyx teeth minutely toothed - this is only visible with a microscope

Miscellaneous notes: Another transitional species (see no. 6940) the cut leaves with an attempt at downiness suggest Soldanelloides, but the pedicellate flowers again lead to Amethstina. Certainly this species and no. 6940 are closely allied.

Barcode: E00024737

Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00024737

Herbarium region: 5C (Myanmar (Burma))

Number of sheets: 1