Description

Much-branched shrub with slender branches; young shoots densely hirsute, with a dense covering of spreading brownish slrigose and slender pilose hairs. Leaves ? monomorphic, chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-6.5 x 1.3-2.5cm, 2-2.5 x as long as broad, apex acuminate, base cuneate to almost rounded, margin entire, ciliate, upper surface pilose, lower surface pale, pilose, with an admixture of strigose hairs, especially on midrib; petioles 5~10mm, densely hairy. Inflorescence 3-4-flowered; pedicels c.5mm, covered with reddish-brown pilose hairs. Calyx densely covered with reddish-brown strigose hairs, lobes narrowly obovate, c.3mm. Corolla funnel-campanulate, deep rose, c.20mm; tube c.9mm, outer surface glabrous, inner surface papillate-pilose. Stamens 10, as long as corolla, filaments pilose below middle. Ovary densely hairy; style hairy at base. Capsule ovoid, c.8 x 6mm, brown-spreading-hairy.

Distribution

China (E & S Yunnan, W Guizhou)

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Habitat

Sandy soil, etc.

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):101