Description

Shrub, 3m; young shoots covered with adpressed grey-brown hairs, becoming glabrous. Leaves dimorphic, coriaceous, elliptic; spring leaves 2-2.8 x c.lcm, 2-2.8 x as long as broad, apex mucronate, base acuminate to acute, upper surface with a few strigose hairs, especially on midrib, lower surface more densely strigose; summer leaves smaller, 16-19 x 8-9mm; petioles 3-6mm, strigose. Inflorescence 5-6-flowered; pedicels 4~6mm, covered with brown strigose hairs. Calyx indumentum as for pedicels. Corolla funnel-campanulate, pale purple or red, c. 16mm; tube 9 x 2.5-3mm, glabrous. Stamens 5, filaments glabrous. Ovary densely strigose; style glabrous. Capsule not known.

Distribution

China (Guangxi, Guangdong)

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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):137