Primula hirsuta, All.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 19

29. P. hirsuta All. , Auct. Syn. Stirp. Horti Taur. 10 (1773)

(P- viscosa Vili. ).

Efarinose. Longest leaves 1-9 x 0-8-3 - 5 cm, ovate, obovate or suborbicular, rather abruptly narrowed into the winged petiole, finely or coarsely dentate, fleshy, viscid, covered with glandular hairs which produce a pale or reddish-brown, rarely blackish secretion; longest hairs 0-1-0-5 mm, with shrunken apical cells depressed apically. Scape 1 -7 cm, usually shorter than the leaves, even in fruit, 1 - to 15-flowered. Bracts 1-8 mm, ovate to transversely ovate, more or less scarious. Pedicels 2-16 mm. Calyx 3 -5-9 mm. Corolla pale lilac to deep purplish-red, usually with a white centre. Capsule J as long to as long as calyx. 2n = 62, 63, 64, 67. Rocks and stony alpine pastures; calcifuge. • Alps; C. Pyrenees. Au Ga He Hs It.