Description

Low shrub, 0.5-3m; young shoots covered with a rufous to grey floccose tomentum. Leaves ovate to elliptic, (3-)4-8 x (1.5-)2.3-5cm, 2-3 x as long as broad, apex acuminate, base rounded, upper surface glabrous when mature, lower surface with a floccose indumentum when young, lamina at maturity with scattered hair remains, midrib with a persistent grey tomentum composed of folioliferous hairs intermixed with stipitate glands; petioles 0.5-2cm, densely grey-tomentose, also with stipitate glands. Inflorescence lax, 5-10-flowered; rhachis c.5mm; pedicels 25-30mm, sparsely stipitate-glandular. Calyx c.2mm, glandular-ciliate, lobes rounded. Corolla campanulate, pink, with deeper lines outside and crimson flecks within, 30-40mm. Ovary densely stipitate-glandular; style glabrous. Capsule c. 10 x 4mm.

Distribution

Taiwan

Altitude

Habitat

Gravelly slopes, etc.

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):273