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Primula macrophylla D. Don var. macrophylla

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Contributor Text: YASIN J. NASIR

Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: May to mid, Aug.

Type: Holotype: Nepal, Wallich in 1820 (presumably at BM).

Distribution: Distribution: Afghanistan to Kashmir and eastward to Sikkim and Bhutan.

Comment/Acknowledgements: A fairly common alpine plant, gregarious along snow banks, moist meadows, streams from 3353-5400 m. Smith & Fletcher (in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 60:563. 1942) have already summed up the variability in the species, which shows a topoclinal variation in the colour of the farina, nature and colour of calyx, and the size of the capsule, as one proceeds from the N.W. Himalaya to Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. They state that Primula macrophylla is typically a W. Himalayan plant and that,…... from West to East in the Himalaya, there is a continuous alteration in facies, culminating in W. China in associates of specific rank.’

Primula macrophylla is closely related to the C. Asian Primula nivalis Pall., kinder which it was previously included by several authors as Pax (1905). It differs from that species in the more or less entire and softer leaves which are more often farinose and much longer than they are broad.

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Map Location: Chitral: A-7 Shah Jinali Pass, N. of Mastuj, Stainton 3046 (RAW); Sora Lasbt, B. Lyon 1085 (BM, E, RAW); Karumbar glacier, 12400-13400', B. Lyon 8212 (BM); Gambok top, A.R. Beg & Zeller 11 (PPFI-B); Gangalwal gol, S.W. of Chitral, Stainton 2726 (BM, E); Chati boi, 4000-4450 m, Stamm. & G. Wohrl 191 (W, E); Below Zapotili, c. 3600 m, Barum Gol, P. Wendelbo s.n. (RAW); Lowari Pass, 11000, Harriss 16336 (WU, BM); Dir: Lowari, 22.6.1967, coll. ignot. 36 (PPFI-B);. Swat: Planshahi, 13,000', 22.7.1957, M. Zahur s.n. (LAH); Darel, 9000-11000', col. ignot. 56 (PPFI-B); Gilgit : Jutial nala, R.R. Stewart 26520 (RAW); Ishkoman pass, 13-14000', F. Schmid 25 (RAW); id., F. Schmid 2466 (BM, E, G); Chillam pass, M.A. Siddigi & Y. Nasir 4251 (RAW); Naltar vy., 11-12000', Duthie 12374 (E); Chongra vy., 14000', W. of Astor, Lankester & Pearson 1518 (BM); Dorah pass, 14600', Giles A186 (K); Kamri pass, 12000', Giles s.n. (K); Baltistan: Dal sang-pa, 14500', E. Nasir & G. L. Webster 6191 (RAW, K); ‘Green Island’, 16000', G. L. Webster & E. Nasir 6217 (GH); Chogolisa glacier, 14000', E. Nash. & G. L. Webster 6252 (RAW, K, M, W, G); Ghondokoro glacier, E. Nasir and G.L. Webster 6114; 6217 (RAW); Satpura nala, E. Nasir & G. L. Webster 6336 (RAW, K, G); Burzil pass, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 22068 A(RAW); id., fis. purple with white eye, W. Koelz 9437 (RAW); id., W. Koelz 9450 (RAW, GH, KUH); Burzil, id., R.R. Stewart 19856, p.p. (KUH) & no. 19857 (GH); Mir Panzil pass-Deosai, 14000', R.R. Stewart 19917 (RAW); Deosai, R.R. Stewart 19925 (RAW); Thalle la, 15-16000', R. R. Stewart 20781 (RAW, GH, KUH); Talala (Thalle la?), 13000', W. Koelz 9742 (MICH, GH); Trango glacier, 14800', Karakoram, 30.5.1937, M.A. Spender s.n.(BM); Gharesa glacier, 13 miles e. of Nagar, 15580', Polunin 6119 (BM, E); e. of Sekam Barisi glacier, R.S. Russell 1506 (BM); N.W. Karakoram, 3550 m, Zaltar Tel 75 (M); Karakoram, 16000', C. B. Clarke 30459 (BM). B-7 Hazara Dist.: Gittidas-Kowai, 4600-4800 m, F. Schmid 417 (BM, RAW); 461 (BM); Kaghan vy., 12400', Inayat 19990; 19907 (E); Shinkiari, 9.6.1899, Inayat s.n. (E); Musa, 14.7. 1899, Inayat s.n. (E); Chaprian, 26.7.1897, Inayat s.n. (E); Batakundi, 21.6.1899, Inayat s.n. (E); Babusar-Gilgit, 5th mile, Kemal & Qaiser 451 (KUH); base of mt. Makra, 11200', Y. & I. Nasir & E. J. Ecker 7663 (RAW); Makra, Inayat 21978 a (E); Gittidas, Ch. Shaukat Ali 94 (RAW); Babusar village, MA. Siddigi & Y. Nasir 2778 (RAW).