Description

Shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely somewhat obovate, usually acute at the apex (very rarely obtuse), cuneate at the base, (35-)40-60 x (13—) 15—25 mm, upper surface dark brownish green. Inflorescence (2-)4-6-flowered, pedicels lepidote, 13-20 mm, rachis very short, lepidote. Calyx lobes ovate, acuminate, 6—9(—11) mm, often somewhat glaucous, lepidote at the base and around the margins, usually slightly loriform-ciliate, and with a tuft of hairs inside the apex. Corolla campanulate to tubular campanulate, (18-)20-27(-32) mm, tube (10-)13-17(-19) mm, pink or white flushed pink, rarely entirely white, sometimes spotted inside, rather densely lepidote outside, occasionally with a few hairs as well. Style impressed, sharply deflexed and shorter than the corolla, or declinate and exceeding the corolla. Capsule lepidote, ovoid, c. 10 mm. ** * Rhododendron glaucophyllum * var. * glaucophyllum * ** ** * Rhododendron glaucophyllum * var. * tubiforme * **

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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):140