Primula tanneri

Primula tanneri is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.

Description
The species' bud scales are efarinose, ovate to oblong and are 2 - 5 cm long. The leaves form a rosette which have winged petiole that is 1 - 3 cm long. It have even longer leaf blade, measuring 2 - 10 x, efarinose, puberulous and is ovate to deltoid. The base itself is cordate and subsagittate with irregular margins, coarse dentate and acute apex. P. tanneri have 10 - 20 cm long scapes which elongate, 45 cm long near the fruit part and are farinose toward the apex. Umbels have 1-2 flowers with bracts that are acuminate to subulate and are 5 - 10 mm long from the broad base. Pedicel is as farinose as the apex and is 1 - 3 cm long. The flowers are heterostylous with tubular to campanulate sepals which are 7 - 10 mm long. P. tanneri have an emarginated and lanceolated lobes which are obovate to oblong with a light to deep purple coloured corolla which can also be blue or white. Tubes of these species can be 1 - 3 cm long while the limb is 2 - 2.5 cm wide. Flowers are heterostyly with stamens toward the apex and bloom in May.

Distribution and habitat
It is found in woodlands and grassy slopes at altitudes of around 3600 m in Bhutan, Nepal, Northeast India and southern Tibet.

Subspecies and varieties
Subspecies and varieties of P. tanneri include:


 * Primula tanneri subsp. nepalensis 
 * Primula tanneri subsp. tsariensis 
 * Primula tanneri var. porrecta