| Family | PRIMULACEAE |
| Genus species | Primula firmipes Balf.f. & Forrest sect. Sikkimensis |
| Bibliography | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 13: 10 (1920) |
| Native Range | sc. China to e. Himalaya and n. Myanmar |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 3000-4500m |
| Description | leaves long petiolate, ovate to suborbiculate, 1-7cm, deeply crenate-dentate, obtuse, umbels 2-8-flowered, flowers 13-20mm across, lobes obovate, emarginate or crenate |
| Size | 10-40cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | late spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 10-16°C division in spring just as young growth commences |
| Synonyms | Aleuritia erythra (H.R.Fletcher) Soják Aleuritia firmipes (Balf.f. & Forrest) Soják Primula deleiensis Kingdon-Ward Primula erythra H.R.Fletcher Primula firmipes var. erythra (H.R.Fletcher) A.J.Richards Primula firmipes ssp. flexilipes (Balf.f. & Forrest) W.W.Sm. & Forrest Primula flexilipes Balf.f. & Forrest Primula rubra Kingdon-Ward |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya) 41 Indo-China (MYA Myanmar) |