Botanical name: Primula matthioli subsp. brotheri    Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Synonyms: Cortusa brotheri, Primula brotheri, Cortusa matthioli f. brotheri

Tibetan Bell Primrose is a primrose with flowers bell-shaped and deeply 5-lobed. Flowers are rosy-purple, drooping, with long flower-stalks in a lax umbel of 5-12 , borne on a slender flowering stem longer than the leaves. Flowers are about 1.5 cm long, bell-shaped, divided at least to the middle into 5 oblong blunt petals. Sepal-cup is about 5 mm, with 5 triangular sepals; bracts elliptic, toothed. Flowers are carried atop a stem 15-25 cm tall. Leaves are long-staked, hairy, with a rounded-heart-shaped blade 2.5-10 cm across and with 5-7 shallow lobes which are toothed. Tibetan Bell Primrose is found in Altay to Mongolia, W Himalaya and Tibet, at altitudes of 3000-4000 m, common in Kashmir. Flowering: June-August.

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