Family | PRIMULACEAE |
Genus species | Dionysia aretioides (Lehm.) Boiss. |
Bibliography | Diagn. Pl. Orient. 7: 68 (1846) |
Native Range | n. Iran (c. Elburz Mts.) |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | shady rocks |
Altitude | 3000-3200m |
Description | leaves in small lax rosettes, linear-oblong, 5-7mm long, hirsute, with revolute margins, abaxially farinose, flowers solitary, sessile, 8-10mm across, floral tube 13-18mm long |
Size | 1-5cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | early spring |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe cuttings of rosettes in late spring |
Synonyms | Dionysia demawendica Bornm. Gregoria aretioides (Lehm.) Duby Primula aretioides Lehm Primula cespitosa Willd. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (IRN Iran) |