Primula occlusa is a small plant (2.5-5cm). Leaves flabelliform or sub-orbicular, rounded at the apex, serrate-dentate in the upper half and covered above and on the veins below with short hairs giving a scabrid appearance. Leaves are generally efarinose but may sometimes have small patches of farina. Leaves are tight and often recurved under when young, more lax later. Scape is farinose at the apex, bracts are leafy. Flowers are purple with a white eye and a pompon of white hairs in the throat. This species is very close to P. primulina and was identified initially as a variety of it, but it differs in the orbicular leaf shape, tendency to single flowers and broader bracts.