Primula proliferaWall.

WFO wfo-0000482908 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-05-03 / obs. 65716543
Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65716589
Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65716641
Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65716679
Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65716433
Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65716445
Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65716460
Primula prolifera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65716558

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Primula prolifera is native: Assam, East Himalaya, Jawa, Myanmar, Sumatera AssamEast HimalayaJawaMyanmarSumatera
Native distribution of Primula prolifera, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Myanmar MYA
Sumatera SUM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aleuritia imperialis (Jungh.) Soják
  • Aleuritia prolifera (Wall.) Soják
  • Cankrienia chrysantha de Vriese
  • Primula imperialis Jungh.
  • Primula prolifera var. gracilis Pax
  • Primula sumatrana Merr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.