Blumea, suppl. 4: 49 (1958)
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Shrub, 3-6m; young shoots at first covered with adpressed red-brown setose hairs, soon glabrescent. Leaves dimorphic, persistent, subcoriaceous; spring leaves ovate to ovate-oblong 4-7.5 x 2-3.5cm, 2-2.2 x as long as broad, apex acuminate, gland-tipped, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, upper surface glabrescent though with a few persistent strigose hairs on the midrib, lower surface with scattered adpressed strigose hairs, persisting on the lamina; summer leaves 15-20 x 5-10mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 3-7mm, densely adpressed-stirgose. Inflorescence 3-4(-5)-flowered; pedicels 3-7mm, densely rufous-strigose. Calyx c.2mm, covered with strigose hairs, lobes lanceolate. Corolla funnel-shaped, white tinged with rose, 15-20mm; tube 5-7mm, glabrous on outer surface, papillate within. Stamens 5, slightly longer than corolla, hairy below middle. Ovary densely rufous-strigose; style hairy at base. Capsule ovoid, 7-9mm long.
Vietnam
Rocky soil in forest
Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):130