Description

Small, creeping shrublet up to 25 cm. Stems loriform-setose and filiform-acicular pubescent. Leaves deciduous, thin, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, rounded at the mucronate apex, tapered to the base, 15-25 x 6-11 mm, margins slightly crenate and loriform-ciliate, upper surface dark green and filiform-acicular pubescent, very sparsely lepidote with dried-out scales, lower surface pale green, lepidote with distant, yellow scales with broad, translucent margins. Inflorescence 1-2-flowered, pedicels 15-20 mm, somewhat accrescent and rigid in fruit, usually loriform-setose and sparsely lepidote. Calyx lobes oblong-ovate, rounded, greenish or reddish, sparsely lepidote, loriform and filiform-acicular ciliate, 2-5-3-5 mm. Corolla yellow, sometimes spotted or streaked with red, 13-15 mm, outside of the tube sparsely to densely lepidote. Ovary lepidote. Capsule cylindric, sparsely lepidote, c. 5 mm.

Distribution

Nepal

Altitude

Habitat

Rock crevices, ledges and peaty banks

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):149