Blumea 1973. 21: 366.
WFO ID: wfo-0000400624
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332550-1
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Shrub to c.5m. Twigs c.2mm in diameter, slender, laxly sub-stellately scaly; internodes 2–3cm. Leaves 4–5 together in pseudowhorls. Blade 45–75 x 15–30mm, narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, rarely narrowly sub-obovate; apex gradually tapering, sub-acute; margin entire, slightly revolute; base tapering; obscurely scaly above, distinctly laxly scaly below. Scales flat, sub-stellate; centre small, somewhat impressed, finally blackish. Mid-vein slightly impressed above, raised below; lateral veins moderately irregular, 7–8 per side, with a moderately dense, raised reticulation on both sides. Petiole 18–25 x c.1mm. Bracteoles filiform to elongate spathulate, 10–15mm, the apex up to 2mm broad. Inflorescence 6–8-flowered. Pedicels c.15 x 1mm, slender, red, densely, shortly white, patent hairy. Calyx c.2.5mm in diameter, oblique, saucer-shaped, obscurely 5-lobed. Corolla tubular, slightly curved, slightly dilated towards the mouth, slender, white, laxly sub-stellately scaly outside, laxly hairy in the proximal 1⁄3 inside; tube 60–65 x 3–4 x 5–6mm; lobes c.13 x 10mm, obovate, spreading or more or less reflexed, glabrous on both sides. Stamens with the filaments hairy for the proximal 20mm, glabrous distally, slightly exserted from the tube; anthers c.2.5mm, oblong, the base obtuse. Disc slightly hairy. Ovary 5–6 x c.1.5mm, cylindrical, slightly greyish-white hairy, tapering distally; style 60–65mm, laxly patently hairy proximally for 10–15mm, laxly patently hairy distally, not scaly; stigma 5-lobed.
Papua New Guinea (E), Morobe District, above Bakaia, 15 miles SE of Garaina.
Epiphytic in moss forest
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:180