Authors: Wall.
The smallest of the evergreen Petiolarid species. Leaves obovate at flowering, bullate, forming a tight crisped rosette of acutely dentate leaves, increasing in size after flowering and changing shape to an oval blade and equally long reddish petiole. Flowers pink with a narrow white eye and yellow centre, 1.5-2cm across, cup-shaped, virtually sessile, lacking farina, elongating somewhat in fruit. Uttar Pradesh to Sikkim, shady banks in forests at 2100-3800m. Closely related to P. gracilipes but smaller, tighter and lacking farina. The plant with purple flowers often grown under this name ('Redpoll') is a hybrid with P. boothii, probably of wild origin. Not difficult in a cool, humid place in full shade, cloched in winter.
