Description

Upright shrub; young shoots covered with flattened adpressed brown hairs. Leaves apparently monomorphic, elliptic to ovate, 1-4 x 0.5-1.4cm, 2-2.5 x as long as broad, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, upper surface strigose, lower surface with flattened strigose hairs on midrib, otherwise glabrous; petioles 3-5mm, densely covered with brown strigose hairs. Inflorescence 3-5-flowered; pedicels 3-5mm, covered with shiny long brown strigose hairs, with an understorey of glandular hairs. Calyx densely covered with brown flattened strigose hairs, lobes 2-4mm, linear-lanccolaate. Corolla funnel-shaped, pale rose, 5-10mm; tube 3-5mm, with five rows of glandular hairs on outer surface. Stamens 5, c. as long as corolla, glandular below middle. Ovary covered with shining red-brown hairs; style glandular and pilose below middle, shorter than stamens. Capsule not known.

Distribution

China (Guizhou, Guangxi)

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Habitat

Nomenclatural History

R. tenue [Ching ex] Fang & MY. He, Bull. Bot. Res. N.E. Forest. Inst. 2(2): 87, t.5 (1982). Type: China, Guangxi, Xingan Xian, Jiu Qu, Leigontien, ad Tangton, vi 1953, Guangxi PL Exp. 677 (holo. PE, iso. IBSC).

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References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):128