Primula asperulata N. P. Balakrishnan; P. florida I. B. Balfour & Forrest; P. incisa Franchet; P. incisa subsp. pectinata (I. B. Balfour & Forrest) W. W. Smith & Forrest; P. longipinnatifida Chen; P. oresbia I. B. Balfour; P. pectinata I. B. Balfour & Forrest; P. souliei Franchet subsp. florida (I. B. Balfour & Forrest) W. W. Smith & Forrest; P. souliei subsp. oresbia (I. B. Balfour) W. W. Smith & Forrest.
Herbs perennial. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 1--3 X as long as leaf blade; leaf blade broadly ovate to oblong, 0.7--3.5 X 0.5--2.5 cm, abaxially white, rarely yellow farinose or efarinose, adaxially scabrous-puberulous, base short cuneate-attenuate to truncate or cordate, margin incised-dentate to pinnatifid, apex rounded to obtuse; lobules linear to oblong, margin entire or with 1 or 2 teeth. Scapes 4--25 cm, puberulous; umbels 2--8(--10)-flowered; bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 4--8 X 1--2 mm, apex acute to obtuse. Pedicel 2--11 mm, ± farinose. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate to tubular-campanulate, 4--6.5 mm, white or pale yellow farinose, parted below middle, 5-ribbed; lobes lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse. Corolla purplish rose to bluish purple, rarely white; limb 1--2 cm wide; lobes obovate, deeply emarginate. Pin flowers: corolla tube 8--10 mm; stamens ca. 2 mm above base of corolla tube; style ca. as long as tube. Thrum flowers with positions reciprocal. Capsule oblong, shorter than calyx. Fl. Jun-Jul.
* S-facing grassy slopes, woodland margins, alpine Quercus forests; 3000--4500 m. W Sichuan, N and NW Yunnan.
