Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 12:60 (1919)
WFO ID: wfo-0001048060
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332316-1
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Epiphytic or free-growing shrub. Young growth rarely loriform-setose. Leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, tapered to the base, rather abruptly acute or with a short drip-tip, 70-120 x 30-48 mm, undersurface with a covering of scales of variable density. Calyx disc-like or very obscurely lobed, not loriform-ciliate. Corolla white, often with a yellow, orange or greenish blotch and/or flushed pink, lepidote outside, pilose at the base of the tube. Ovary lepidote, usually waisted towards the apex. Capsule up to 20 mm.
India (Arunachal Pradesh), ne Burma, China (NW, W & C Yunnan, SE Xizang). Rocks, cliffs, etc., or epiphytic, 1200-1400 m
R. atentsiense Handel-Mazzetti, Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien 18:14 (1921). Type: China, Yunnan bor.-occid., in monte inter pagum Atentse et fluvium Mekong sito, versus .4000 m, 1914, Gebauer (holo. WU—n.v., iso. E). R. notatum Hutchinson, Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 16:177 (1931). Type: Upper Burma, Seinghku Wang, 5000-5500 ft, Kingdon Ward 6711 (holo. E). R. taronense Hutchinson, op. cit.: 178. Type: China, Yunnan, Taron valley, 4000-5000 ft, Kingdon Ward 5501 (holo. E)
Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):48