Primula wattii King ex G. Watt, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 20:10. 1884. drawing Plate XIV (A)
Section Soldanelloides
Link to Flora of Bhutan description
Type specimen: King's collector 4480 resides at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (specimen E00024757, E00288499)
P. gilli (syn): Jenkins, Garden (London) 76:190. 1912. Type specimen: drawing.
Epithet: Named for Sir George Watt.
Distribution: Bhutan, N Myanmar (Burma), SE Tibet (Xizang), Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
First collected in Sikkim, this species is distinguished by the violet flowers with cut lobes and calyx and with a farinose eye. The scape is glabrous and efarinose and the leaves are hairy on both sides and efarinose. Images below are all from Arunachal Pradesh.
