Description

Shrub or tree,3-8m. Leaves oblanceolate, 9.5-15.5 x 2-3cm,3.5-5.2 x as long as broad, apex long-acuminate to shortly cuspidate, base cuneate, lower surface glabrous; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous. Inflorescence 7-12-flowered; rhachis 25-60 mm; pedicels 15-20 mm, stipitate-glandular. Calyx 1 -2 mm, stipitate-glandular. Corolla 7-8-lobed, open-campanulate, sparsely glandular outside, glabrous within, pink to rose-purple, with darker flecks, 40-55 mm. Stamens 14-16, filaments glabrous. Ovary stipitate-glandular; style glabrous or with a few glands and then usually only at the base, only occasionally for up to two-thirds of its length, stigma capitate. Capsule unknown.

Distribution

China (C & S Sichuan, NE Yunnan)

Altitude

Habitat

Open places, bamboo 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):228