Description

Shrub; young shoots covered with adpressed strigose hairs. Leaves dimorphic, coriaceous; spring leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-5.5 x 1.2-1.6cm, c.3.5 x as long as broad, apex acute, base narrowly cuneate, margin entire, revolute, upper surface sparsely strigose, lower surface with a felted red-brown strigose indumentum; summer leaves 15-20 x 5~7mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles c.6mm, densely strigose. Inflorescence 4-5-flowered; pedicels c.8mm, strigose. Calyx densely strigose, lobes triangular, c. 1.5mm. Corolla tubular-campanulate, pale reddish-purple, c.35mm; tube 18-25 x 3mm at base, widening to 7mm below lobes, hairy within. Stamens 5, puberulent in lower half. Ovary covered with reddish-brown strigose hairs; style strigose at base. Mature capsule not known.

Distribution

China (Fujian)

Altitude

Habitat

Open woodlands

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):104