Description

Much-branched shrub, 0.8-2m; young shoots usually stipitate-glandular or setose-glandular, occasionally glabrous. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 4.5—5 x 1.4-2.4cm, 2—2.3 x as long as broad, apex rounded, apiculate, base rounded, upper surface glabrous, lower surface punctulate, otherwise glabrous, occasionally with a few tufts of hairs even at maturity, glaucous; petioles 0.5-0.7 cm, with a few setulose glands or ± glabrous at maturity. Inflorescence lax, 1 —4-flowered; rhachis c.3mm; pedicels 20-30mm, glandular-setulose. Calyx 1—3mm, stipitate-glandular, lobes rounded. Corolla funnel-campanulate, pale yellow or white flushed rose, to pink, usually dark pink in bud, with or without purple flecks, c.30mm. Ovary and style-base densely stipitate-glandular. Capsule 20-25 x c.5mm, curved.

Distribution

China(NW Yunnan, SE Xizang), ne Upper Burma.

Altitude

Habitat

Among scrub, forest margins, open pasture

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):281