Authors: Watt
A dwarf deciduous relative of P. tanneri, with a creeping habit. Leaves dark green, bullate, lacking meal, shortly oblong at flowering, developing a cordate base and winged petiole later, 2.5-4cm long at flowering. Flowers disproportionately large, purple to purple-blue, 20-30 mm diameter, with a yellow eye, the petal lobes irregularly notched, solitary or in 2-4 flowered umbels on stems to up to 4cm high. A high alpine with a scattered distribution in high rainfall zones from central Nepal east to the Burma/India border, 3500-5000m. Rather difficult but just about persistent in cultivation, but tending to be shy-flowering. Requires a cool position in a shaded trough.
