Description

Shrub or small tree, 1 -5m; young shoots stipitate- to setose-glandular. Leaves ± herbaceous, ovate or obovate to elliptic, 3.5-9 x 1.8-4cm, 1.7-2.5 x as long as broad, apex rounded, apiculate, base rounded, upper surface glabrous, lower surface occasionally with a few persistent hairs near the base when mature, otherwise glabrous, or with a sparse brownish indumentum on lamina; petioles 1 -1.5(-2)cm, sparsely stipitate-glandular to densely glandular-setose, sometimes becoming glandular with age. Inflorescence lax, 3-8-flowered; rhachis 2-3mm; pedicels 15-20mm, stipitate-glandular. Calyx l-8mm, stipitate-glandular, when well-developed with rounded ovate to Ungulate lobes. Corolla funnel-campanulate, white or pale cream to deep pink, with or without purple flecks, 25-40mm. Ovary densely stipitate-glandular; style glabrous or glandular at base, rarely glandular for half its length. Capsule 12-35 x 3.5mm, curved. ** * Rhododendron selense * var. * dasycladum * ** Leaves 4-9 x 2.2~4.2cm, glabrous beneath, only rarely with a glaucous bloom; young shoots with long-stipitate glands to densely setose-glandular; longest calyx lobes 1 -2(-5)mm. ** * Rhododendron selense * var. * jucundum * ** Leaves 5-7.5 x 2.8-4cm, glabrous beneath, with a glaucous bloom; young shoots long-stipitate-glandular to setose-glandular; longest calyx lobes (2-)4-6mm. ** * Rhododendron selense * var. * selense * ** Leaves 4.5-7 x 2.2—3.6cm, with or without a glaucous bloom beneath, entirely glabrous; young shoots at maturity shortly stipitate-glandular, longest calyx lobes l-2(—5)mm. ** * Rhododendron selense * var. * setiferum * ** Leaves 5-7.5(-12) x 2.5-3.3(-4)cm, with a ± persistent though often discontinuous indumentum beneath, not glaucous; young shoots ± setose-glandular; longest calyx lobes (2-)4-8mm.

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References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):277