Sunyatsenia 1: 76 (1930)
WFO ID: wfo-0001048960
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332702-1
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Shrub, to 2.5m; young shoots densely clothed with spreading strigose hairs and stipitate glands. Leaves dimorphic, subcoriaceous; spring leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, up to 8 x 2.5cm, c.3 x as long as broad, apex acuminate, base cuneate, upper surface sparsely setose when young, soon glabrescent, lower surface pale, sparsely setose, especially on midrib and veins; summer leaves 20-30 x 8-14mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 2.5-4mm, setose. Inflorescence c.l2-flowered; pedicels covered with strigose hairs and stipitate glands. Calyx c.l.5mm with broad lobes, long-ciliate. Corolla tubular-campanulate, white to pale purple, 20-22mm; tube c.lOmm, cylindrical, glabrous. Stamens 5, glabrous. Ovary densely long-setose; style glabrous. Capsule c.9mm long, setose.
China (Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan)
In thickets
R. fongkaiense C.N. Wu & P.X.Tan, Mat. Med. Guangdong 4: 34, f.2 (1978). Type: China, Guangdong, Fongkai Xian, L. Teng 11072 (holo. IBSC).
Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):104