Bull. Bot. Res. N.E. Forest. Inst. 2(4): 78 (1982)
Verified by:
Shrub; young shoots becoming glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 2.8-3.8 x 1.3-1.7cm, apex slightly acute, upper surface greenish, opaquely brown when dry, lower surface paler below, covered with thin lanate indumentum, with the midrib setulose; petioles 3-4mm, densely brownish, strigose with some longer setose hairs. Inflorescence 1-flowered; pedicels 6-8mm, densely strigose. Calyx densely brown-strigose, lobes crenulatc, 5mm. Corolla obliquely funnel-campanulate, rose, c.25mm, lobes 20-22mm, obovate-oblong. Stamens 10, filaments puberulent. Style glabrous. Fruit not known.
China (Fujian)
R. daiyuenshanicum P.X.Tan, Survey Gen. Rhododendron S. China 96, f.22, 3 (1983). Type as above.
Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):145