Description

Deciduous shrub, 0.3-2.3 m. Shoots pale brown, glabrous, ± elepidote. Leaves thin, oblong-elliptic, broadly elliptic or obovate, 42-65 X 22-30 mm, margins loriform-ciliate, upper surface dark green, lepidote, filiform-acicular pubescent along the veins, lower surface pale green, lepidote with distant, pale brown, broadly rimmed scales. Inflorescences 3-5-flowered, pedicels 10-20 mm, lepidote and sparsely puberulent. Calyx lobes reddish, lepidote, glabrous or rarely with a few short loriform cilia, 4-6 mm. Corolla purplish pink, 14-20 mm, very sparsely lepidote outside. Stamens 10. Ovary lepidote. Capsule ovoid-cylindric, lepidote, 8-11 mm

Distribution

Nepal

Altitude

Habitat

Open slopes in forest

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):150