Primula tanneri is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.[1]
The species' bud scales are efarinose, ovate to oblong and are 2- long. The leaves form a rosette which have winged petiole that is 1- long. It have even longer leaf blade, measuring 2-, efarinose, puberulous and is ovate to deltoid. The base itself is cordate and subsagittate with irregular margins, coarse dentate and acute apex. P. tanneri have 10- long scapes which elongate, long near the fruit part and are farinose toward the apex. Umbels have 1-2 flowers with bracts that are acuminate to subulate and are 5- long from the broad base. Pedicel is as farinose as the apex and is 1- long. The flowers are heterostylous with tubular to campanulate sepals which are 7- long. P. tanneri have an emarginated and lanceolated lobes which are obovate to oblong with a light to deep purple coloured corolla which can also be blue or white. Tubes of these species can be 1- long while the limb is 2- wide. Flowers are heterostyly with stamens toward the apex and bloom in May.[2]
It is found in woodlands and grassy slopes at altitudes of around in Bhutan, Nepal, Northeast India and southern Tibet.
Subspecies and varieties of P. tanneri include: