Description

Shrub or small tree, 4-8m; young shoots with a dense blackish floccose indumentum, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, (7—)9—14 x 2.8-3.5cm, c.4 x as long as broad, apex acuminate, base rounded, upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface with lamina glabrous and midrib floccose-tomentose, hairs folioliferous; petioles 1.5-2cm, finely hirsute and glandular. Inflorescence lax, 5-12-flowered; rhachis 10-20mm; pedicels 25-40mm, with shortly stipitate glands. Calyx c.2mm, lobes broad, rounded, glandular-ciliate. Corolla widely campanulate, lacking nectar pouches, white, sometimes tinged with pink, usually with a red basal blotch and flecks, 30-50rnm. Ovary densely tomentose, also with a few stipitate glands; style tomentose at base, otherwise glabrous. Capsule c.15 x 3mm

Distribution

Taiwan

Altitude

Habitat

Forests, etc.

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):273