Family: Primulaceae
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Omphalogramma elwesianum (King ex G.Watt) Franch.
Isotype of Omphalogramma elwesianum var. assamicum H.R.Fletcher
Collector/Expedition: Kingdon-Ward, F.
Collection number: 13951
Collection date: 21st July 1938
Country/Territory: India:Arunachal Pradesh
Collecting locality: India:Arunachal Pradesh:Poshing La
Habitat: In flower only at top of pass in streams and boggy pasture, in midst of scrub Rhododendron
Description: Flowers purple, whole plant hairy, crimson hairs on scape. Mostly over. Height in flower 6 inches in fruit a foot. Scattered also under big Rhododendron bushes along path, not forming colonies here as it does in the open pass. (Allied to the Chinese group of Omphalogramma and not to O. elwesiana of Sikkim)
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SPECIMEN/SHEET
Barcode: E00024838
Herbarium region: 5A (India, Bangladesh & Pakistan)
Number of sheets: 1
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