Description

Dwarf shrub, up to 0.7m; young shoots floccose-tomentose and stipitate-glandular. Leaves oblanceolate to elliptic, 4.5-7.5 x 1.7-2.3 cm, 2.7-3.3 x as long as broad, apex rounded, minutely apiculate, base ± rounded to cuneate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with a bistrate indumentum, the upper layer fulvous, ramiform-tomentose, the lower adpressed, whitish, epidermis epapillate; petioles 0.5—lcm, narrowly winged, setulose-glandular, also sparsely floccose-tomentose. Inflorescence 4—5-flowered; rhachis minute; pedicels 7—10mm, densely stipitate-glandular and floccose-tomentose. Calyx 1—2mm, lobes rounded, glandular and tomentose. Corolla fleshy, tubular-campanulate, bright brick-red to scarlet, 25-30mm. Ovary densely stipitate-glandular and stellate-tomentose, tapering into the style which is sparsely tomentose below. Capsule not known.

Distribution

NE Upper Burma

Altitude

Habitat

Undershrub in 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):413