Med. Rijksherb. 1915. 25: 3.
WFO ID: wfo-0000400227
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333184-1
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Shrub to 50cm. Twigs 1–1.5mm in diameter, sub-densely covered with orange-brown stellate scales; internodes 1.8–5.5cm. Leaves 3–6 together in pseudowhorls with several subulate cataphylls along the internodes. Blade 27–60 x 4–7(sometimes up to 11)mm, linear-elliptic; apex obtuse or broadly acute; margin flat; base tapering; scaly on both sides when young, glabrescent above with age, laxly persistently scaly beneath. Scales with the marginal zone irregularly, often obtusely, lobed, flat, pale; centre weakly or not impressed. Mid-vein impressed above, strongly obtusely prominent beneath; lateral veins obscure. Petiole 2–5mm, scaly. Inflorescence 2–4-flowered. Pedicels 12–15mm, slender, sub-densely orange-brown, stellately scaly. Calyx c.2.5mm in diameter, disc-shaped, oblique, scaly, very shortly obtusely 5-lobed. Corolla 27–32mm, tubular, somewhat zygomorphic, reddish-purple or pale pink, laxly sub-stellately scaly or glabrous outside, glabrous inside; tube 17–22 x c.4 x 6–7mm, sub-cylindrical, base pouched; lobes 7–9 x 5–6mm, half-spreading, broadly-obovate. Stamens unequal, the longest exserted to c.3mm; filaments linear, glabrous; anthers c.1.5mm, obovoid. Disc prominent, glabrous. Ovary c.4 x 1.6mm, fusiform, tapering both proximally and distally, densely scaly; style slender, glabrous, as long as the stamens; stigma sub-oblique, globose, purple.
Indonesia, New Guinea (W), Perameles and Schrader Mts, and Idenberg R., near Bernhard Camp.
Epiphytic on tall trees in mossy forest.
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:225