Reinwardtia 1960. 5: 127.
WFO ID: wfo-0000400486
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331913-1
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Shrub. Twigs rounded and densely scaly becoming glabrescent; internodes 2.5–9cm. Leaves 4 together in pseudowhorls, sub-sessile. Blade 25–60 x 12–28mm, broadly elliptic to elliptic; apex broadly tapering, sub-obtuse; margin slightly revolute; base sub-truncate, rounded to sub-cordate; at first scaly becoming glabrescent above, persistently and laxly scaly beneath. Scales irregularly dentate at margin, flat, each on top of a minute epidermal tubercle. Mid-vein flat or weakly impressed above, thick and very prominent beneath in the proximal 2/3, less so distally; lateral veins 7–8 per side, straight below, curved-anastomosing near the margin, hardly visible above, somewhat raised beneath, reticulation inconspicuous. Petiole 2–3 x c.1.5mm, scaly. Bracts to 14 x 9mm, ovate-acuminate, acute, outer ones scaly and sub-densely covered with hairs outside, inner ones hairy only. Bracteoles to 10 x 1mm, linear to sub-spathulate-linear, laxly hairy. Inflorescence 7–9-flowered. Pedicels 7–12 x c.0.5mm, densely scaly and shortly sub-patently greyish hairy. Calyx c.2.5mm in diameter, minute, membranous, wavy, irregularly fringed. Corolla trumpet-shaped, proximally white, pink-coloured distally; tube 30–33 x 2.5 x 3.5mm, cylindrical, straight, distinctly pouched at the base, laxly short-hairy and scaly outside, the scales completely disappearing by maturity, shortly hairy in the proximal ½ inside, glabrous distally; lobes 10–12 x 7–8mm, slightly spreading, obovate-spathulate, hairy outside at the base, otherwise glabrous, though distinctly ciliate. Stamens slightly exserted; filaments linear, hairy in the proximal 1⁄3, glabrous distally; anthers 1.8–2 x 0.7mm, oblong, base obtuse. Disc prominently 10-lobed, glabrous. Ovary 6–7 x 1.6mm, sub-cylindrical, densely hairy and scaly, abruptly narrowed distally; style hairy and scaly to nearly the top; stigma thick, conical-globose, just below the mouth.
Indonesia, Sulawesi (C), Masamba District near Limbung
Said to be common in secondary forest on stony and peaty soil.
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:169