Description

Shrub to 2 m. Young growth with a dense indumentum of loriform setae which is soon deciduous. Leaves obovate, tapering to the base, obtuse at the apex, 50-55 X 20-24 mm, upper surface dark green, rather densely lepidote with flat, somewhat dried-out scales, margins loriform-ciliate when young, somewhat crenate in the upper part, lower surface densely lepidote with overlapping to contiguous scales producing a brownish colour; petioles densely lepidote and sparsely loriform-setose. Inflorescence 4-6(-10)-flowered, pedicels densely lepidote. Calyx disc-like, undulate, lepidote, loriform-ciliate. Corolla greenish yellow, funnel-campanulate, 30-35 mm, tube 18-20 mm, the base of the tube pilose outside, the whole conspicuously lepidote, tube glabrous inside. Stamens 10, filaments densely pubescent in the lower part. Ovary densely lepidote; style impressed, lepidote in the lower part. Fruit unknown.

Distribution

C Burma (Mt Victoria)

Altitude

Habitat

Fringes of forest

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):43