It grows in moist rock crevices and moss at elevations of 4000-5000 meters in southern Tibet (Yadong, Cona, Dawang), and is found in Sikkim and Bhutan.
The corolla is blue-purple, 4.5-6 mm long, with a short tube nearly equaling the calyx, and a limb diameter of 4-6 mm. The lobes are nearly square or slightly inverted-ovate to elliptic, 2-lobed at the apex.
Primula sapphirina
It is a perennial herb with a very short rhizome and numerous fibrous roots. The leaf rosettes are less than 1.3 cm tall, usually forming dense cushion-like clusters, with brownish withered leaves at the base.