Description

Shrub, 2-3m; young shoots spreading-stipitate-glandular, sticky. Leaves persistent, coriaceous dimorphic; spring leaves lanceolate-elliptic, 5.5-7.5 x 2.3-3cm, c.2.5 x as long as broad, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin revolute, upper surface sparsely strigose, especially on midrib, lower surface setose; summer leaves 18-30 x 8-10mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 4-8mm, spreading-setose; Inflorescence I0-14-flowered; pedicels 13-15mm, strigose, sticky. Calyx minute, strigose, lobes triangular-lanceolate. Corolla rotate-campanulate, c.25mm, rose-red with purple flecks; tube c.10 x 8mm, glabrous. Stamens 5, filaments sparsely puberulent in lower half. Ovary strigose; style puberulent below. Capsule ovoid, c.7 x 5-6mm, strigose.

Distribution

China (Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi)

Altitude

Habitat

Rocky places in upland woodlands

Nomenclatural History

R. lingiiChun in Ching, Icon. Corm. Sin. 3:151, f.4256 (1974)ó Chinese description only. Type as for R. rhuyuenense.

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):99