Journ. Linn. Soc. 18:75 (1881)
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Shrub to 1 m. Leaf-bud scales deciduous. Leaves ± elliptic, 30-40 X 13-17 mm, rounded to the base, tapered to the acute, mucronate apex, pale green and elepidote above, pale greenish brown to brown with dense, overlapping and ± plastered scales all of the same golden brown colour beneath. Inflorescence somewhat elongate, c. 16-20-flowered, pedicels short, lepidote. Calyx lobes 5-5-5 mm, sparsely lepidote outside, margins lacerate-ciliate with loriform setae, inner surface puberulent. Corolla white (often pink in bud), funnel-hypocrateriform, tube 10-13 mm, lobes 6-8 mm, glabrous and elepidote outside, tube pilose within. Stamens 8-10. Ovary lepidote. Capsule lepidote, c. 5 mm, scarcely exceeding the calyx
Afghanistan, Pakistan
Steep rocky and stony slopes
Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):158