Description

Shrub or small tree, l-5m; young shoots with a sparse covering of shortly stipitate glands. Leaves subcoriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate, (7—)10—17 x (2.3-)3-4.2cm, 3-4 x as long as broad, apex cuspidate, base rounded, margin not ciliate, upper surface glabrous when mature, lower surface with a dense (occasionally sparse) matted fawn to red-brown tomentum composed of ramiform hairs, intermixed with stipitate glands, especially towards the base; petioles l-2cm, densely stipitate-glandular. Inflorescence 8-14-flowered; rhachis 10-15mm; pedicels 25-30mm, densely stipitate-glandular, also very sparsely hairy. Calyx 5-10mm, densely stipitate-glandular, lobes irregular, Ungulate, rounded. Corolla campanulate, white flushed pink, with at least a few purple flecks and a basal blotch. Ovary stipitate-glandular; style glabrous or glandular at base. Capsule c.15 x 6mm. ** * Rhododendron crinigerum * var. * crinigerum * ** ** * Rhododendron crinigerum * var. * euadenium * **

Distribution

China (NW Yunnan, SE Xizang), NE Upper Burma

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Habitat

Open pine forests, rocky slopes

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):288