Description

Straggling shrub, up to 3m; young shoots stellate-setose and stipitate-glandular. Leaves obovate to elliptic, 6-9 x 3.2-4.4cm, 2-2.4 x as long as broad, apex rounded, apiculate, base + rounded, upper surface rugulose, glabrous, lower surface with a dense unistrate fulvous dendroid-tomentose indumentum; petioles 1.5-2cm, setulose to tomentose. Inflorescence 6—10-flowered; rhachis c.5mm; pedicels 10- 15mm, setulose-tomentose. Calyx c.5mm, cupular, sparsely tomentose. Corolla fleshy, tubular-campanulate, carmine to blood-red, c.35mm. Ovary stellate-tomentose. Capsule at least 12 X 6mm, persistently tomentose.

Distribution

NE Upper Burma, ne India (Arunachal Pradesh)

Altitude

Habitat

Bamboo forests, rocky gullies

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):386