Reinwardtia 1960. 5: 139.
WFO ID: wfo-0000400334
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333025-1
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Shrub. Twigs 0.5–1mm in diameter, densely brown-stellate-scaly, at first glabrescent and smooth later. Leaves laxly spirally arranged. Blade 3–7 x 2.5–4mm, ovate, shortly acuminate, sub-acute or obtuse; margin thickened, flat or slightly recurved; base broadly rounded; initially scaly on both sides, quickly glabrescent above, more persistently scaly below. Scales irregularly stellately lobed, not or only slightly impressed. Mid-vein and lateral veins obscure. Petiole 0.5–1mm, slender. Bracts to 15 x 5mm, membranous, ovate-elliptic, inner ones long subulate-acuminate, glabrous and shining. Flowers solitary. Pedicels 4–6mm, slender, densely stellate-scaly. Calyx c.2.5mm in diameter, disc-shaped, margin wavy, scaly outside. Corolla 25–27mm, slightly zygomorphic, pink, thin; tube 18–20 x c.3 x c.5mm, cylindrical, glabrous both inside and out; lobes 5–7 x 5–7mm, spreading, sub-circular. Stamens exserted to c.3mm, unequal; filaments linear, glabrous; anthers 1–1.2mm, hardly longer than broad. Disc prominent, glabrous. Ovary c.3.5 x 2mm, sub-cylindrical, densely scaly, gradually tapering distally; style c.14mm; stigma globose.
Indonesia, New Guinea (W), Idenburg R., Bernard Camp, c.139°E
3°30'S.
Epiphytic in stunted, mossy forest on an exposed summit
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:146