Primula kingii - Red Himalayan Primrose

Red himalayan primrose is a perennial herb, epowdery, hairless, with few oblong bud scales at base. Flowers are dark wine-red, narrowly bell-shaped, 1.3-2.2 cm, hairless inside, with a cylindric base nearly as long as sepal-cup and an expanded bell-shaped upper part; limb 1.5-1.8 cm wide, finely velvet-hairy; petals elliptic to oblong, about 5 mm, margin entire, tip flat. Pin flowers have stamens about 3 mm above base of flower tube; style about 8 mm. Thrum flowers have stamens 0.9-1.2 cm above base of flower tube; style about 5 mm. Sepal-cup is narrow-bell-shaped, 6-8 mm, parted 1/3-1/2; sepals triangular, tip pointed. Flowers are borne atop stems 10-20 cm long, elongating to 30 cm in fruit; umbels 2-10-flowered; bracts needle-tipped, 3-10 mm. Flower-stalks are unequal, 0.5-2 cm. Leaf-stalks are winged; leaf blade elliptic-lanceshaped to lanceshaped, 2-6 x 5-10 mm, base wedge-shaped, margin entire to remotely finely toothed, tip pointed. Flowering: June-July. Red Himalayan Primrose is found in alpine meadows, at altitudes of about 4000 m, in Bhutan, NE India, Sikkim & Tibet.