Bull. Bot. Res. N.E. Forest. Inst. 3(1): 4 (1983)
WFO ID: wfo-0001229806
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Shrub, to 1.5m; shoots slender, covered with dense, adpressed strigose hairs, twigs with grey-brown hairs, becoming glabrous. Leaves ? dimorphic, thick, coriaceous, obovate-elliptic, 1-3.5 x 0.6-2cm, 1.7-1.8 x aslongasbroad, apex blunt mucronate, base obtuse to cuneate, margin entire, upper surface of leaf almost glabrous, with a few scattered chestnut hairs on midrib, lower surface with scattered chestnut adpressed hairs, especially on midrib; petiole 4-7mm, densely covered with brown strigose hairs. Inflorescence 8-10-flowered; pedicels 2-4mm, densely covered with dark brown bristlelike hairs. Calyx cup-shaped, indumentum as for pedicels. Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous, red, 15mm, lobes oblong; tube c.7mm. Stamens 5, unequal, filaments flattened, papillate. Ovary ovoid, densely covered with dark brown bristle-like hairs; style glabrous. Capsule not known.
China (Guangdong)
Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):138