Description

Free-growing shrub up to 1 m. Young growth not loriform-setose. Leaves narrowly elliptic, rarely obovate, tapered to the base and the acute apex, 50-110 x 30-40 mm, dark green and persistently lepidote above, brownish or greyish beneath with scales about their own diameter apart. Inflorescence 2-4-flowered; pedicels lepidote. Calyx unequally 5-lobed, lepidote, the margins loriform-ciliate. Corolla pink all over (sometimes very faintly so), funnel-shaped, 40-50 mm, the tube c. 30 mm, pubescent at the base and moderately lepidote all over the surface outside. Stamens 10, filaments pubescent towards the base. Ovary densely lepidote, tapering into the lepidote style. Capsule lepidote, oblong, up to 20 mm.

Distribution

Know only in cultivation

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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):55