Description

Loosely branched shrub, l-2m; young shoots covered with adpressed grey-brown hairs that gradually disappear. Leaves persistent, coriaceous, dimorphic; spring leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 3-9 x 2-3.5cm,(1.5-)2-3.2 x as long as broad, apex acute, base broadly cuneate, margin entire to subcrenulate, ciliate, both surfaces with scattered adpressed pilose hairs, lower surface paler than upper; summer leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 30-40 x 10-15mm, apex acute to rounded and mucronuiate, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 2-4mm, stout, flattened, covered with adpressed flattened grey-brown strigose hairs. Inflorescence 2-6-flowered; pedicels 10mm, densely fulvous-strigose hairs glandular or eglandular. Calyx covered with adpressed grey pilose or giandular-pilose hairs, lobes oval, rounded, c.5mm. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 45-60mm long, c.50mm across, rose-red to scarlet, with dark flecks on upper lobes; tube ,15-20mm, glabrous. Stamens 10, shorter than corolla, filaments pilose below middle. Ovary eglandular- or glandular-pilose; style glabrous. Capsule ovoid c. 10mm, sparsely hairy. ** * Rhododendron scabrum * var. * amanoi * ** Pedicels, calyx and ovary glandular-pilose ** * Rhododendron scabrum * var. * scabrum * ** Pedicels, calyx and ovary eglandular-pilose

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References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):112