Primula cawdoriana Kingdon-Ward, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 15: 87. 1926.
Section Soldanelloides
Link to Flora of China description
Type specimen: Kingdon-Ward 5741 resides at British Museum (specimen BM000996885) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024734) and KEW (specimen K000750440).
Epithet: Named for Lord Cawdor.
Distribution: Tibet (Xizang), China.
Kingdon-Ward collected this species at the Temo La and the Nyima La, Tibet under the same collection number. It is easily distinguished by the compact head of 3-8 pendent flowers on scapes which are slightly farinose at the apex. Each flower is violet, sometimes tinged white at the base, farinose at the base, narrowly campanulate, cylindric, with each lobe cut into 2-3 triangular segments. Calyx is green or purple and farinose within, cut to 1/3. The leaves are prostrate, obovate to oblanceolate or spathulate, base attenuate with a winged petiole, glandular pubescent along the veins underneath and scabrid above, margin irregularly dentate or serrate.
