Description

Shrub or small tree, l-10m. Leaves obianceolate, 5-11 x 1.5-3cm,c.3.3 x as long as broad, apex cuspidate, glabrous above, with a felted to compacted, fawn to brownish indumentum beneath, intermixed with a few stipitate glands; petioles clem, narrowly winged, floccose to ± glabrescent. Inflorescence lax, 8-15-flowered; rhachis c.lOmm; pedicels 20-30mm, floccose and sparsely stipitate-glandular. Calyx l-2mm, floccose, lobes triangular, minute. Corolla funnel-campanulate, pinkish to pale purple, with darker flecks, 30-35mm. Ovary rufous-tomentose and glandular; style glabrous. Capsule 20-25mm, cylindrical and curved. ** * Rhododendron longipes * var. * chienianum * ** Leaves with a thicker, more spongy, felted indumentum. ** * Rhododendron longipes * var. * longipes * ** Leaves with a thin compacted indumentum.

Distribution

China (W & C Sichuan, Guizhou)

Altitude

Habitat

Thickets

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):319