Primula tanneri


Primula tanneri is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.

Description

The species' bud scales are efarinose, ovate to oblong and are long. The leaves form a rosette which have winged petiole that is long. It have even longer leaf blade, measuring, efarinose, puberulous and is ovate to deltoid. The base itself is cordate and subsagittate with irregular margins, coarse dentate and acute apex. P. tanneri have long scapes which elongate, long near the fruit part and are farinose toward the apex. Umbels have 1-2 flowers with bracts that are acuminate to subulate and are long from the broad base. Pedicel is as farinose as the apex and is long. The flowers are heterostylous with tubular to campanulate sepals which are long. P. tanneri have an emarginated and lanceolated lobes which are obovate to oblong with a light to deep purple coloured corolla which can also be blue or white. Tubes of these species can be long while the limb is wide. Flowers are heterostyly with stamens toward the apex and bloom in May.

Distribution and habitat

It is found in woodlands and grassy slopes at altitudes of around in Bhutan, Nepal, Northeast India and southern Tibet.

Subspecies and varieties

Subspecies and varieties of P. tanneri include:Primula ''tanneri subsp. nepalensisPrimula tanneri subsp. tsariensisPrimula tanneri var. porrecta''