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Published In: Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 29: 4, pl. 3B. 1882. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: YASIN J. NASIR
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: May-June.
Type: Holotype: Poosiana, C.B. Clarke 28440 A (K! iso. E! B!).
Distribution: Distribution: Endemic.
Comment/Acknowledgements: One of the rarer primulas from Kashmir with the habit of a Viola L. It was last collected by Ludlow and Sherriff in 1937 from the type locality. Ludlow (1951) mentions that under cultivation this species developes a scape.
Illustration: Primula clarkei Watt (Illustration)
Map Location: Kashmir: C-8 Poosiana, Ludlow K34 (BM).

 

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A glabrous escapose plant with a slender rootstock. Leaves more or less with a distinct petiole; lamina 12-40 x 22-40 mm, subreniform to sub cordate or orbicular-oblong, membranous, crenate-dentate or finely so, attenuate, nerves faint. Petiole up to 9.5 cm long, slender, more or less sheathing. Bracts 2-5 mm E long, not prolonged or saccate. Flowers rose-pink, 2-4 per plant, hetermorphic. Pedicel 2.5-6.5 cm long, not exceeding the foliage. Calyx 6-7 mm long, broad campanulate, glabrous, c.½ cleft; lobes c. 3 mm long, triangular-ovate. Corolla tube 8-8.5 mm long, limb 1.1-1.6 cm broad, lobes 7-7.5 x 6-6.5 mm, obtuse, obcordate. Style slender. Capsule subglobose, included in the calyx. Seeds less than 1 mm, minutely reticulate-vesiculose.
 
 
 
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