Sunyatsenia 7:1 (1948)
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Small shrub, to 2m; young shoots covered with adpressed flattened strigose red-brown hairs. Leaves monomorphic, coriaceous, persistent, elliptic to oblong-ovate, 1-2 x 0.5-0.9cm, 2 x as long as broad, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, upper surface strigose, lower surface paler, strigose, especially on midrib; petiole 2-3mm, strigose. Inflorescence 2-3-flowered; pedicels 5-7mm, densely brown-strigose. Calyx strigose; lobes l-2mm, oblanceolate. Corolla funnel-shaped, lilac-purple, upper lobes flecked, 9-10mm; tube c.6 x 3mm, with 5 rows of glands on outer surface, also glandular within. Stamens 5, sub-equal, filaments minutely hairy below. Ovary densely covered in fine brown hairs; style covered with fuscous setose hairs and glands in lower half. Ripe capsule not known.
China (N Guangdong)
Wooded slopes and ravines
Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):133