Gard. Chron. 95:276 (1934)
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Shrub, perhaps epiphytic, attaining 1 m or more in cultivation. Young shoots bristly with deciduous loriform setae. Leaves oblong-elliptic, up to 88 X 45 mm, obtuse at the apex, rounded at the base, loriform-ciliate when young, the lower surface papillose with close, golden yellow scales slightly sunk in pits. Inflorescence 3-4-fIowered, pedicels very short, densely lepidote. Calyx obscurely lobed, lobes 2-3 mm, lepidote, loriform-ciliate. Corolla campanulate, yellow, 29-30 mm, tube c. 15 mm, lepidote and pubescent at the base of the tube outside, pilose within the tube. Ovary lepidote. Capsule unknown.
ne Burma (Adung valley)
Scrub, 2450 m
R. butyricum Kingdon Ward, nomen nudum.
Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):135