Reinwardtia 1960. 5: 90.
WFO ID: wfo-0000400206
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333080-1
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Shrub to 1m. Twigs 2–3mm in diameter, rounded, the tips stellate-scaly, later densely minutely warty and rough to the touch after the scales have gone; internodes 3–6cm. Leaves 3–4 together in pseudowhorls. Blade 50–80 x 30–50mm, broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic; apex shortly tapering, obtuse; margin shortly revolute; base very broadly tapering to nearly rounded; stellate-scaly initially on both sides. Scales small, fragile, dendroid, each on top of a persistent epidermal tubercle, quickly becoming glabrescent but rough with the tubercles on both sides especially beneath. Mid-vein as thick as the petiole, above prominent and grooved along the midline in its proximal 2⁄3, impressed distally; lateral veins 6–8 per side, irregular, straight below, obscurely curved-anastomosing before the margin, very slightly impressed above, prominent beneath. Petiole 10–15 x c.2mm, grooved above, densely scaly. Inflorescence of 2–3 flowers. Pedicels 15–20 x c.1mm, densely brown-stellate-scaly. Calyx 5–6mm in diameter, disc-shaped, densely scaly, without hairs, with 5 distinct, irregular, elongate-triangular sub-acute teeth, which are white-ciliate and spreading to 2–4mm. Corolla 55–60mm, zygomorphic, tubular below, gradually widened upwards, red; tube c.50 x 6 x 15mm, curved, densely brown stellate-scaly outside, with white long retrorse hairs inside; lobes 15–20 x 12–15mm, broadly spathulate to sub-circular, scaly outside except near the margins, glabrous inside. Stamens unequal; filaments 45–55mm, linear, wider and densely patently hairy proximally, narrower and glabrescent to glabrous distally; anthers 5–5.5 x c.2mm, brown, broadly oblong. Disc glabrous. Ovary c.7 x 3mm, obconical-cylindrical, densely covered with sub-appressed, yellowish, stiff hairs which cover the scales, abruptly contracted distally; style thick, densely hairy and laxly scaly below, more laxly patently hairy but more densely scaly distally, glabrous at the upper 5mm below the globose stigma.
Indonesia, New Guinea (W), Bernhard Camp, Idenburg R., c.139°E 3°30’S one collection
Epiphytic in mossy forest
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:94