Primula sinensis

Primula sinensis
Primula sinensis, a hand-coloured engraving from John Lindley's Collectanea botanica (1821) of a plant both named and drawn by Lindley
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Primulaceae
Genus: Primula
Species:
P. sinensis
Binomial name
Primula sinensis
Sabine ex Lindley, Coll. Bot. t. 7. 1821. non Loureiro (1790).[1]
Synonyms

Auganthus praenitens Link
Oscaria chinensis Lilja
Primula mandarina Hoffmannsegg
P. praenitens Ker Gawler
P. semperflorens Loiseleur-Deslongchamps ex Steudel
P. sertulosa Kickx f.
Primulidium sinense (Sabine ex Lindley) Spach.

Primula sinensis, (Chinese: 藏报春; pinyin: zàngbàochūn) or the Chinese primrose, is a plant species in the genus Primula.

Primulin is an anthocyanin found in P. sinensis.[2]

  1. ^ Primula sinensis on eFlora.org
  2. ^ 3. Flavonoids in genotypes of Primula sinensis, J. B. Harborne and H. S. A. Sherratt, Plant Polyphenols, 1960