Description

Shrub or small tree, 0.6-6m. Leaves elliptic to obovate-lanceolate, 7.5-18 x 4-6.5cm, 1.8-2.7 x as long as broad, apex acute to apiculate, base cordate to ± rounded, lower surface with a thin discontinuous unistrate brown indumentum composed of the scattered remains of hairs and glands; petioles 0.5-2cm, sparsely floccose or glabrescent. Inflorescence 5- 15-flowered; rhachis c.lOmm; pedicels 5-20mm, glabrescent or sparsely floccose. Calyx 0.5-3mm, lobes rounded, usually glandular-ciliate. Corolla campanulatc to funnel-campanulate, white to yellow, sometimes flushed pink, with or without purple flecks and basal blotch, 25-45mm. Ovary glabrous or with a brownish-red floccose indumentum, sometimes interspersed with glands; style usually glabrous, occasionally glandular below. Capsule not known.

Distribution

China (E Xizang)

Altitude

Habitat

Forests, open stony 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):365