Description

Much-branched shrub; young shoots slender, covered with adpressed flattened shining brown hairs. Leaves persistent, chartaceous, ovate-elliptic, 1-3 x 0.6-1.7cm, 1.8-2.5 x as long as broad, apex obtuse and mucronate, margin entire, base broad, cuneate-rounded, both surfaces with scattered adpressed pilose shining brown hairs that turn grey, upper surface with impressed midrib, lower surface reticulate; petiole 2-5mm. Inflorescence 2-several-flowered; pedicels 3-5mm, covered with shiny flattened white hairs. Calyx 2-4mm, indumentum as for pedicels, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-campanu-late, rose-pink with crimson spotting on upper lobes, 25mm. Stamens 5(-6), filaments pilose below middle, anthers apiculate at base. Ovary conic, densely pilose; style pilose at base, dilated at apex. Capsule not known.

Distribution

China (Taiwan)

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References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):124