Primula jigmediana W. W. Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 19:171. 1936.
Section Soldanelloides
Link to Flora of Bhutan
Type specimen: Ludlow and Sherriff 397 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024740) and at British Museum (specimen BM000997011).
Epithet: Named for the Maharajah of Bhutan.
Distribution: Bhutan, NE India.
Primula jigmediana was originally collected on the Me La in Bhutan, but has since been seen growing in Arunachal Pradesh. This species has a corolla with patent limbs, resulting in a funnel shaped flower. Other distinguishing features are that the mauve-blue flowers are solitary, have a dark wine-purple annulus and are shortly pedicelled. Flowers are held on 2-4cm, wirey stems. The leaves are glabrous, efarinous, spathulate to oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, bluntly dentate at the margins and have a winged petiole.
