Description

Small shrub to 1 m, often closely and intricately branched. Leaf-bud scales

persistent or not. Leaves ovate or elliptic, rarely almost orbicular, (10-)14-35 x 8-16 mm,

rounded to the base and to the subacute’mucronate or rarely slightly emarginate apex, above dark green, lepidote or elepidote, beneath dark brown (rarely rather pale) with dense, overlapping scales in 2-3 tiers, those of the lowest tier as dark as, or darker than the rest. Inflorescence dense, many-flowered, pedicels short, lepidote, puberulent or entirely glabrous. Calyx lobes oblong, 3-5-4-5 mm, usually somewhat lepidote outside, margin loriform-ciliate, inner surface variably pubescent. Corolla usually white or pink, rarely cream or yellowish, tube 6-12 mm, lobes 4-7-5 mm, glabrous and elepidote outside, densely pilose within the tube. Stamens (5-)6-8(-10). Ovary lepidote. Capsule 4-5 mm, lepidote, scarcely exceeding the calyx. ** * Rhododendron anthopogon * var. * anthopogon * ** ** * Rhododendron anthopogon * var. * hypenanthum * **

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References

Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):158