Description

Shrub, young branches glabrous. Leaves glabrous; blade elliptic-lanceolate, 35-100 x 12-18 mm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, coriaceous; petiole c.6 mm long. Inflorescence buds lateral, clustered at the ends of leafy shoots, 1-2-flowered; bud scales glabrous and shining on their backs, margins of the upper scales ciliate; pedicels c. 12 mm long, glabrous. Calyx of 5 triangular or sometimes linear, lobes, glabrous. Corolla small (c.25 mm long) with a relatively long tube (c.l2mm long), glabrous. Stamens 10, filaments almost glabrous. Ovary cylindric, c.5mm long, glabrous; style glabrous. Capsule not seen.

Distribution

China (Guizhou)

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Habitat

Nomenclatural History

R. vaniotii Leveille, Feddes Repert. 13:148 (1914). Type: China, Guizhou, Gan-chuan, iv 1912, Cavalerie 3886 (holo. E).

Notes

References

Philipson, W.R. & Philipson, M.N. (1986) A Revision of Rhododendron III. Subgenera Azaleastrum, Mumeazalea, Candidastrum and Therorhodion. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 44(1):10