七指报春 qi zhi bao chun

Herbs perennial. Rhizomes with numerous fibrous roots. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 4--15 cm, densely fulvous pilose; leaf blade suborbicular, 5--10(--15) cm wide, abaxially with grayish long spreading hairs along veins, adaxially sparsely pilose, base deeply cordate, palmately lobed to 1/3 its width; lobes 7--9, broadly triangular, margin incised-dentate and irregularly denticulate, apex obtuse. Scapes 10--30(--50) cm, densely fulvous pilose; umbels 1(or rarely 2 or 3), superimposed, 3--6-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 5--10 mm. Pedicel 0.5--2 cm, densely glandular pubescent. Flowers drooping, homostylous. Calyx usually tinged with purple, 5.5--8 mm, sparsely glandular pubescent or glabrescent, parted to middle or slightly below; lobes lanceolate, costate. Corolla deep purplish rose; tube 0.8--1.2 cm; limb 6--12 mm wide; lobes oblong-obovate, 4--5 X 2--4 mm, emarginate. Capsule elliptic, ca. as long as calyx. 2n = 24@.

Woodlands, streamsides; 2400--4000 m. SW Sichuan, S Xizang, NW Yunnan.

Lower Taxa

• Primula septemloba var. minor Kingdon-Ward
• Primula septemloba var. septemloba