Primula agleniana I. B. Balf. & Forrest

Flowering from May to June.

Primula agleniana is occurring in SE Xizang, NW Yunnan of China, N Myanmar.

Herbs perennial; bulblike stock formed by overlapping basal bud scales. Petiole ca. as long as to slightly shorter than leaf blade, usually longer at fruiting; leaf blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10-25 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, abaxially greenish yellow farinose or nearly efarinose, base attenuate, margin laciniate dentate, apex acute. Scapes 20-40 cm, sparsely farinose toward apex; umbels 2-8-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 5-10 mm. Flowers heterostylous. Pedicel 1.5-3 cm, elongated to 6 cm in fruit, densely minutely glandular. Calyx campanulate, 1.1-1.5 cm, glandular, parted to near middle; lobes oblong, apex obtuse to rounded. Corolla pale yellow or cream-white, rarely white or pink, campanulate, ca. 3 cm, exannulate; limb 3-4 cm wide; lobes broadly obovate to orbicular, ca. 1 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, slightly emarginate. Pin flowers: corolla tube ca. as long as calyx; stamens at middle of tube; style ca. 1 cm. Thrum flowers: corolla tube slightly longer than calyx; stamens at level of calyx; style ca. 2 mm. Capsule cylindric, ca. as long as to slightly longer than calyx.

Growing in damp meadows, streamsides; 4000-4500 m.