Primula aemula Balf.f. & Forrest
Section Crystallophlomis, Subsection Maximowiczii
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Forrest 10687 resides at E (specimens E00024251, E00024252, E00024809) and BM (specimen BM000996941) and US (specimen 00116446) and K (specimen K000732979) and P (specimen P04571321).
Epithet: Rivaling in magnificence P. reflexa and P. orbicularis.
Distribution: N Yunnan, SW Sichuan, China.
P. aemula is efarinose, and is distinguished by its robust nature, several whorls of pale yellow flowers in which the oblong corolla lobes are patent (sometimes slightly bent back), leaf blade base is long attenuate and the blade is longer than the petiole. It was first collected on the Chungtien (Zhongdian) plateau, Yunnan but has also been found to the East of there in SW Sichuan.
