Description

Erect shrub to 2 m. Young growth loriform-setose. Leaves narrowly elliptic to linear-elliptic or linear-obovate, long-tapering to the base, acute or acuminate at the apex, (26-)42-72 x 10-21 mm, not more than 21 mm broad, the blade narrowly decurrent on the petiole, upper surface dark green, elepidote, margin loriform-setose when young, some, at least, of the setae persisting, lower surface lepidote with unequal scales about their own diameter apart; petioles loriform-setose. Inflorescence 2-3-flowered, pedicels lepidote. Calyx disc-like, lepidote, weakly loriform-ciliate. Corolla white or white flushed pink, often with a yellow blotch and pink markings along the tube, openly funnel-campanulate, 40-55 mm, the tube 24-30 mm, pilose at the base and variably lepidote outside. Stamens 10, filaments pubescent towards the base. Ovary lepidote, style impressed, lepidote to well above the base. Capsule c. 16 mm, lepidote. ** * Rhododendron formosum * var. * formosum * ** Leaves 10-16 mm broad ** * Rhododendron formosum * var. * inaequale * ** Leaves 15-21 mm broad

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References

Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):46