Acta Phytotax. Sin. 6: 171 (1957)
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Small loosely branched shrub, elm, with short slender branches; young shoots clothed with grey flattened hairs, becoming ± glabrescent when older. Leaves deciduous; spring leaves oblong-elliptic 2-2.5 x 0.6-0.8(-l)cm, 2.5-3.2 x as long as broad, apex acute-apiculate, base cuneate, margins entire, ciliate, upper surface with lamina glabrescent, indumentum ± persistent on midrib and lateral veins, lower surface ± densely brownish-sericeous, indumentum more dense on midrib; petioles densely villose. Inflorescence 1-2-flowered; pedicels c.lOmm, pilose. Calyx 5-6mm, sericeous-pilose. Corolla funnel-campanulate, 25-30mm, purplish red; tube 15mm, glabrous. Stamens 10, filaments minutely pilose below. Ovary densely sericeous-pilose; style glabrous. Capsule unknown.
China (N Guangxi)
Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):110