Primula occlusa - Fanleaf Primrose

Fanleaf Primrose is a perennial herb with leaves forming rosettes, 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, and flowering stems 3.5-5 cm, 1- or 2-(or 3)-flowered. Flowers are purplish mauve, violet, or purple, with a white eye; tube 7-8 mm; throat obscured by a projecting cluster of white hairs; limb 7-10 mm wide; petals obovate, deeply notched. The species name occlusa, meaning blocked, refers to the throat being blocked by hairs. Pin flowers have stamens slightly below middle of flower tube; style scarcely as long as tube. Thrum flowers with positions reciprocal. Flowers are stalkless, heterostylous. Sepal-cup bell-shaped, 4-4.5 mm, glandular outside, parted to middle; sepals ovate to oblong, tip rounded to apiculate.Bracts are 2 or 3, broadly ovate, 3-3.5 mm, often deeply toothed at tip. Leabes are fan-shaped to nearly round, 6-15 x 2-7 mm, carried on leaf-stalks narrowly winged, usually shorter than leaf blade, leaf margin toothed in upper 1/2, tip rounded. Capsules are cylindric, about as long as sepal-cup. Fanleaf Primrose is found in E. Himalaya to SE. Tibet at altitudes of 4000-5000 m. Flowering: July.