Reinwardtia 1960. 5: 139.
WFO ID: wfo-0000400188
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333052-1
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Small, weak shrub. Twigs slender, 0.6–1mm in diameter, densely covered at first with dark, brown, shortly stalked scales, minutely warty and rough to the touch; internodes 1.2–4cm. Leaves 2–4 together in pseudowhorls. Blade 6–12 x 3–8mm, broadly elliptic to sub-obovate-elliptic; apex obtuse to round; margin pale, sub-cartilaginous, entire or sub-crenulate with impressed scales; base broadly tapering or rounded, laxly to sub-densely scaly on both sides when young, glabrescent above, more persistently scaly beneath. Scales irregularly stellate, flat, slightly impressed. Mid-vein and lateral veins not visible. Petiole 1mm, slender, scaly. Bracts to 6 x 2.5mm, narrowly ovate-acuminate, distinctly sub-densely appressed-hairy, fringed initially with scales along the margin. Inflorescence of solitary or paired flowers. Pedicels 7–10mm, slender, densely covered with shortly stalked, deeply stellate-incised scales and very short slender sub-patent hairs. Calyx 2mm in diameter, disc-shaped, deeply obtusely 5-lobed, scaly outside. Corolla 10–12mm, tubular; tube c.8 x 2.5 x 3.5mm, sub-densely stellate-scaly outside, glabrous inside; lobes c.4 x 4mm, spreading, sub-circular, scaly outside in the proximal ½. Stamens exserted to c.2mm, unequal; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers c.1mm, obovate. Disc glabrous. Ovary c.2 x 1.2mm, obconical-cylindrical, densely stellate-scaly, gradually tapering distally; style c.3.5mm, slender; stigma club-shaped-sub-globose.
Indonesia, New Guinea (W), Wissel Lakes region: summit of Mt Mutaro (Moetaro).
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:146