Gard. Bull. S.S. 1935. 8(3): 262.
WFO ID: wfo-0000405384
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333321-1
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Shrub. Twigs slender, patent, minutely patently hairy and laxly covered with sessile scales; internodes 0.7–6cm. Leaves in 4–10 together in pseudowhorls at the upper nodes. Blade 13–28 x 5–11mm, elliptic-obovate to narrowly elliptic; apex broadly tapering, obtuse and ending in a small protruding gland; margin entire or minutely crenulate with impressed scales, slightly revolute; base tapering, rugulose when dry, shining above, laxly scaly initially, becoming glabrescent above, dull and laxly scaly beneath. Scales sessile, circular; margin entire or nearly so; centre thick, darker and distinctly impressed. Mid-vein impressed above, strongly raised beneath; lateral veins obscure or sometimes faintly visible underneath. Petiole 2–4mm, slender, scaly and minutely hairy. Bracts to 7 x 4mm, ovate, obtuse, densely shortly hairy outside, laxly scaly and with a ciliate margin. Bracteoles to 6mm, filiform, hairy. Inflorescence 2–4- flowered. Pedicels 9–12mm, slender, densely covered with sessile scales, sometimes also minutely hairy. Calyx oblique, unequally obtusely 5-lobed, scaly but not ciliate. Corolla 16–19 x 15–25mm, funnel-shaped; tube 8–9 x c.2.5 x 4–6mm, laxly scaly outside, glabrous inside; lobes 9–10 x 6–7mm, obovate, with scales outside except near the margins. Stamens very slightly or not exserted; filaments linear, glabrous; anthers c.1.5mm, oblong. Disc glabrous. Ovary c.2.5 x 2mm, ovoid-conical, obtuse, 5-grooved longitudinally, densely scaly, gradually tapering distally; style c.16mm, glabrous; stigma 5-lobed. Fruit 8 x 2.5mm.
Malaysia (W), Pahang, Mt Tahan, 1675m.
Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:41