Description

Shrub aim, young shoots densely covered with reddish-brown strigose hairs. Leaves dimorphic, coriaceous; spring leaves obovate to obovate-elliptic 3.5-5 x 1.5cm, 2.2-2.6(-3.3) x as long as broad, apex shortly acuminate, margin revolute, base cuneate, upper surface sparsely strigose at first, becoming glabrescent, lower surface pale, adpressed reddish-brown-strigose, especially on midrib; summer leaves spathulate-ovate, 15-20 x 7-9mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles short. Inflorescence 2-4-ftowered; pedicels c.5mm, densely reddish-brown-strigose. Calyx strigose, minute. Corolla funnel-campanulate, reddish purple, 18mm; tube c.5mm. Stamens 5, pubescent below, anthers with apical projections. Ovary strigose; style glabrous. Fruit cylindrical, strigose, 12-13 x 3-4mm.

Distribution

China (Guangdong)

Altitude

Habitat

By streams

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):133