Reinwardtia 1960. 5: 160.
WFO ID: wfo-0000399964
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332753-1
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Shrub to 2m. Twigs 5mm in diameter, densely stellate-scaly at first, glabrescent and smooth later. Leaves c.4 together in pseudowhorls. Blade 20–30 x 7–10mm, narrowly elliptic or elliptic; apex shortly acuminate, sub-acute; margin cartilaginous, slightly revolute, wavy and sub-crenulate; base tapering; glabrescent and rugulose above at maturity, brown and sub-densely scaly beneath. Scales flat, irregularly crenate or sub-stellately lobed in the marginal zone; centre large and impressed. Mid-vein very narrowly impressed proximally on the upper surface, prominent beneath; lateral veins darker coloured, inconspicuous. Petiole 3–5 x c.0.8mm, nearly rounded, scaly. Flowers solitary. Pedicels 15–20 x c.0.6mm, densely stellate-scaly, less densely shortly hairy. Calyx c.4mm in diameter, disc-shaped, membranous, reflexed and obscurely lobed. Corolla 30mm, tubular, scarlet, slightly oblique; tube 19–22 x c.6 x c.10mm, almost straight, lobed at the base, glabrous or with a few stellate scales at the base outside, glabrous inside; lobes 8–10 x 7–9mm, broadly obovate-spathulate to sub-circular. Stamens exserted to c.5mm, unequal; filaments linear below, filiform distally, glabrous; anthers c.2.5 x 1.2mm, broadly oblong. Disc prominent, glabrous. Ovary c.4 x 1.8mm, sub-cylindrical, densely shortly yellowish hairy, no scales visible, gradually tapering distally; style c.23mm, thick, glabrous, slightly exceeding the stamens; stigma rounded.
Indonesia, Sulawesi, Poso area, Mt Lumut.
Terrestrial shrub on the summit
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:212