Primulina malipoensis

Description. Perennial herbs. Rhizomatous stem subterete, 20 - 60 mm long, 5 - 15 mm in diameter. Leaves 8 - 12, basal or clustered at apex of stem, opposite decussate. Petiole flattened, 20 - 40 mm long, 8 - 10 mm wide, pubescent. Leaf blade slightly fleshy when fresh, thickly chartaceous when dried, ovate to broadly elliptic, 7 - 12 x 7 - 10 cm, adaxially densely pubescent, abaxially glabrescent and only puberulent along veins, apex subacute to obtuse, base cuneate, margin inconspicuously serrate; lateral veins 4 on each side, abaxially conspicuous. Cymes 3 - 5, axillary, 2 - 4 branched, 8 - 16 - flowered; peduncles 15 - 27 cm long, ca. 2 mm in diameter, densely pubescent; bracts 2, sometimes with bracteoles (narrowly ovate, 8 - 12 x 4 - 7 mm), green, opposite, ovate, 16 - 25 x 8 - 13 mm, margin entire, apex acute, outside densely pubescent, inside sparsely pubescent. Pedicel 10 - 14 mm long, ca. 1 mm in diameter, densely glandular pubescent and puberulent. Calyx 5 - parted to near base, lobes narrowly lanceolate, white, 7 - 9 x ca. 2 mm, outside densely glandular pubescent and puberulent, inside sparsely pubescent, margin entire. Corolla pale greenish-yellow, 24 - 32 mm long, outside glandular-pubescent and puberulent, inside glabrous; tube infundibuliform, 21 - 25 mm long, ca. 8 mm in diameter at mouth, ca. 5 mm in diameter at base; limb distinctly 2 - lipped, adaxial lip 2 - parted, lobes broadly ovate, 7 - 9 x 6 - 7 mm, apex rounded, abaxial lip 3 - lobed, lobes oblong, 11 - 13 x 5 - 7 mm, apex rounded. Stamens 2, adnate to 10 - 13 mm above the corolla tube base; filaments linear, 9 - 11 mm long, pale greenish-yellow, geniculate near middle, sparely pubescent; anthers fused by the entire adaxial surfaces, ca. 2 mm long, abaxially densely covered with glandular hairs. Staminodes 3, lateral ones 6 - 7 mm long, adnate to 10 - 12 mm above the corolla tube base, middle one ca. 1.5 mm long, adnate to 6 - 8 mm above the corolla tube base. Disc annular, ca. 1.5 mm in height. Pistil 22 - 26 mm long; ovary cylindrical, 15 - 18 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm in diameter, densely glandular pubescent and puberulent; style ca. 7 mm long, densely glandular-pubescent and puberulent; stigma 1, its upper lobe lacking, lower lobe obtrapeziform, shallowly 2 - lobed at apex, ca. 2 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide. Capsule linear, ca. 30 mm long, densely pubescent.