Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 19:243 (1937)
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Small, spreading shrub to 0.3 m. Young growth lepidote with somewhat stalked scales, glabrous. Leaves 15-16 x 9-10 mm, broadly obovate or oblong-obovate, very obtuse at the apex, rounded to the base, margins crenate, lower surface pale green or brownish with prominent venation and distant, brown, flat, rather narrowly rimmed scales. Inflorescence 1-flowered, pedicels 15-20 mm in flower, lepidote. Calyx with conspicuous, oblong, rounded, lepidote and sparsely filiform-acicular-ciliate lobes, c. 7 mm. Corolla yellow, drying greenish yellow, sometimes with red spots inside the tube, 20-23 mm, tube c. 14 mm, broadly funnel-campanulate to almost bowl-shaped, densely pubescent and lepidote all over the outer surface. Stamens 10, filaments pubescent towards the base. Ovary lepidote, style impressed, glabrous, exceeding the stamens. Capsule unknown.
China (S Xizang)
Open rocky hillsides,
Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):122