Reinwardtia 1960. 5: 168.
WFO ID: wfo-0000405370
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333301-1
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Small and slender shrub. Twigs 1–1.5mm in diameter, rounded, laxly scaly and often whitish, lower parts glabrescent and smooth; internodes 2.5–5cm. Leaves spirally arranged or in loose pseudowhorls. Blade 20–30 x 10–18mm, elliptic, apex rounded, often very shortly apiculate; margin sub-cartilaginous, undulate, crenulate or almost entire; base nearly rounded or broadly tapering; laxly scaly initially, glabrescent and a little rugose with age above, laxly and persistently scaly beneath. Scales flat, sub-circular, the brown marginal zone angular or irregularly lobed; centre minute, darker, weakly impressed. Mid-vein narrowly impressed above, broader, flattened and weakly, or not, prominent beneath; lateral veins inconspicuous. Petiole 2–3 x 1–2mm, somewhat flattened. Bracteoles c.13mm, filiform, glabrous. Inflorescence a 3–6-flowered open umbel. Pedicels 15–30 x 0.5mm, sub-densely covered with stellate scales and short patent hairs. Calyx c.3mm in diameter, disc-shaped, irregularly and shortly 5-lobed, scaly and hairy outside. Corolla c.35mm, tubular, red; tube c.25 x 5–6 x 7–8mm, straight, cylindrical, the base pouched, glabrous inside and out; lobes c.10 x 7–8mm, spreading, broadly obovate-spathulate, slightly retuse. Stamens unequal, 27–33mm; filaments linear, glabrous; anthers c.3 x 1.5mm, oblongoid-obovoid; cells tapering towards the base, apiculate at the very base. Disc prominent, glabrous. Ovary 28–32mm, sub-ovoid-cylindrical, densely sub-stellately scaly, without hairs, abruptly contracted distally; style 28–32mm, slender, glabrous; stigma obconical. Fruit (immature) 15 x 4mm, sub-cylindrical.
Indonesia, Sulawesi, Latimodjong Range, W slope of Mt Rantemario.
In forest
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:212