Primula caveana W. W. Sm.

Herbs perennial, with a short rhizome, covered with withered leaves. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole nearly as long as to 2--3 X as long as leaf blade, dilated and sheathing at base; leaf blade oblong to elliptic or obovate to suborbicular, 1--8 X 1--2.5 cm, abaxially copiously white farinose, adaxially densely glandular puberulous, base attenuate or abruptly constricted and short decurrent, deeply dentate, apex rounded. Scapes 2--12 cm, sparsely glandular; umbels 1--9-flowered; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.7--1.5 cm, farinose. Pedicel 1--2 cm, elongating to 4 cm in fruit, white farinose. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx tubular to tubular-campanulate, (5--)6--11 mm, white farinose, parted to 2/3 or below; lobes linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, apex acute to obtuse, rarely dentate. Corolla pale purple; tube (0.7--)0.9--1.3 cm; limb ca. 1.5 cm wide; lobes broadly obovate to suborbicular, margin entire to erose-crenulate. Pin flowers: stamens 3.5--4 mm above base of corolla tube; style ca. as long as tube. Thrum flowers: stamens 7--8 mm above base of corolla tube; style reaching middle of tube. Capsule globose, included in calyx. Fl. Jun.

Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan), S.E. Tibet.

S Xizang [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Sikkim].

4600-5700 m

In shaded rock crevices; 4800--5000 m.

Primula cana I. B. Balfour & Cave; P. younghusbandiana I. B. Balfour.

Primula caveana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Anh thảo. Loài này được W.W. Sm. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1911.

短蒴圆叶报春（学名：Primula caveana）为报春花科报春花属下的一个种。