Description

Shrub, l-2m; young shoots densely clothed with loosely adpressed flattened strigose hairs intermixed with softer grey-brown, sometimes glandular, pilose hairs. Leaves dimorphic, chartaceous; spring leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-5 x 1.5-2cm, 2-2.5 x as long as broad, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate, base cuneate, margin entire, both surfaces clothed with adpressed reddish-grey pilose hairs, especially on midrib; summer leaves oblanceolate, 15-30 x 5-10mm, c.3 x as long as broad, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 3-5mm, densely clothed with spreading flattened strigose and softer pilose hairs. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered; pedicels 10-15mm, clothed with soft spreading pilose, sometimes glandular and flattened, strigose hairs. Calyx glandular-pubescent, lobes lanceolate, up to 15mm long, often slightly erose. Corolla widely funnel-shaped, white to rose-pink or red, 25-50mm; tube 12-25mm, glabrous. Stamens 10, c. as long as corolla, papillate below middle. Ovary setose; style glabrous. Capsule conic-ovoid, c.5mm long. ** * Rhododendron mucronatum * var. * mucronatum * ** Flowers white (only known in cultivation) ** * Rhododendron mucronatum * var. * ripense * **

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Nomenclatural History

Azalea mucronata Blume, Bijdr. 853 (1826)

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References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):116