Description

Free-growing shrub to 1.5 m. Young branches not loriform-setose. Leaves obovate, rounded at the apex, tapered to the base, 30-70 x 15-35 mm, upper surface brownish green, lower surface lepidote with rather dense, but not overlapping, brownish scales; petiole sometimes loriform-ciliate. Inflorescence 2-3-flowered, pedicel lepidote and minutely puberulous. Calyx very small, disc-like, obscurely lobed, margins loriform-ciliate. Corolla funnel-campanulate, white and pink, c. 65 mm, tube c. 33 mm, sparsely pubescent over most of the surface, the lobes lepidote. Stamens 10, filaments pubescent towards the base. Ovary lepidote, tapered into the style which is lepidote and minutely pubescent in the lower third. Capsule unknown.

Distribution

Thailand (Dayap province)

Altitude

Habitat

Ridges

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):57