Description

Free-growing shrub. Young growth loriform-setose, the setae usually persistent. Leaves elliptic or narrowly elliptic, tapering to the base, acute at the apex, 70-110 x 26-40 mm, brownish beneath with rather dense but not contiguous scales. Inflorescence (2-)3-5-flowered. Calyx small, undulately lobed, persistently loriform-ciliate. Corolla white or pink, 50-60 mm, tube 25-34 mm, the tube pubescent but not lepidote outside, the lobes sparsely lepidote. Capsule ovoid-cyhndric, c. 20 mm

Distribution

China (N & C Yunnan)

Altitude

Habitat

Hillsides

Nomenclatural History

R. missionarum Leveille, Bull. Geogr. Bot. 24:20 (1915). Type: China, Yunnan, Tong-koua-pur, 3000 m, 1911, Maire (holo. E). R. pseudociliicalyx Hutchinson, Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 12:54 (1919). Type: a cultivated specimen (holo. E)

Notes

References

Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):51