Description

Shrub or small tree, 2.5—6m. Leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, 8.5—16 x 2.2-4cm, c.4 x as long as broad, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous above, lower surface with a thin compacted silvery to fawn unistrate indumentum embedded in a surface film and intermixed with a few stipitate glands; petioles 1.5—2cm, floccose, with a few shortly stipitate glands. Inflorescence 20-30-flowered; rhachis 15-30mm; pedicels 30-35mm, sparsely dendroid-hairy and glandular. Calyx 2-3mm, lobes triangular, glandular. Corolla funnel-campanulate, whitish with crimson flecks, 25—30mm. Ovary glabrous or with a few whitish simple hairs; style glabrous. Capsule 20-25 x 4-6mm, cylindrical, curved to ± circinnate.

Distribution

China(NW Yunnan & adjacent SE Xizang)

Altitude

Habitat

Fir forests. Rhododendron thickets

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):324