Brit. Fl. Garden ser. 2: 1,1.95 (1831)
Verified by:
Dwarf shrub; young shoots becoming glabrous. Leaves ovate, 1.5-3 x l-2cm, apex acute, upper and lower surface with long brown hairs, becoming glabrous; petioles l-3mm, densely villose. Inflorescence 1-2-flowered; pedicels short, hidden by bracts, densely villose. Calyx minute, densely villose. Corolla open-campanulate, pale purple or lilac, upper lobe spotted, 20-30mm, lobes 15mm, broadly oblong. Stamens 10, unequal, glabrous. Ovary densely hairy; style glabrous. Fruit not known.
China (E Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Jangxi, Hunan)
Mixed woodland
Azalea farrerae (Tate) Koch, Dendr. 2(1): 178 (1872). Rhododendron farrerae Tate var. leucotrichum Franchet, J. Bot. (Morot) 394 (1895). Syntype: China, E Sichuan, aux environs de Tchen-keou-tin. Farges 50, 846, n.v. Azalea squamata Lindley, J. Hort. Soc. Lond. 1:152 & Bot. Reg. t.3 (1847). Type: China, Hongkong, Mt Victoria, 550m, Tate (holo. BM), Rhododendron cinereoserratum P.X.Tan, Bull. Bot. Res. N.E. Forest. Inst. 2(4): 77 (1982). Type: China Fujian, Nanjing Xian, Hexi, Ling hai, Univ. Amoy 20 (holo. Amoy Univ.)
Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):144