Description

Dwarf shrub, to 0.5m; young shoots covered with adpressed flattened brown strigose hairs. Leaves monomorphic, persistent, coriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate, 1-2.5 x 0.5-1.2cm, c.2 x aslongasbroad, apex mucronate, base cuneate, margin entire, upper surface glabrescent, lower surface with sparse adpressed strigose hairs, especially on midrib; petioles c.3mm, densely adpressed-strigose-hairy. Inflorescence 2-4-flowered; pedicels 2-3mm, pilose. Calyx minute, densely strigose. Corolla funnel-campanulate, rose, with or without darker flecks, c.30mm; tube c.lOmm, glabrous. Stamens 5, filaments glabrous. Ovary densely pilose; style glabrous. Capsule not known. ** * Rhododendron naamkwanense * var. * cryptonerve * ** Leaves with lateral veins obsolete beneath; corolla with dark flecks ** * Rhododendron naamkwanense * var. * naamkwanense * ** Leaves with conspicuous lateral veins beneath; corolla apparently without flecks

Distribution

China (Guangdong, Jiangxi)

Altitude

Habitat

Moist shaded cliffs

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):132