Description

Shrub or small tree to 13 m high, young branches glabrous. Leaves glabrous; blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 60-140 x 20-45 mm, base broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, coriaceous; petiole 8-15 mm long. Inflorescence buds lateral, 3-5 (~8)-flowered, at the ends of leafy shoots; bud scales glabrous except for ciliate margin, caducous; pedicels 10-30mm long, glabrous. Calyx 5 minute lobes (sometimes unequal), glabrous. Corolla white or pink, with yellow blotch, glabrous, with a narrow tube 10-15 mm long, and spreading, or reflexed, narrowly oblong lobes c. 15-20 mm long. Stamens 10, long exserted, filaments hairy on lower part. Ovary cylindric c.6 mm long, glabrous or slightly pilose; style glabrous. Capsule tapered at each end, often falcate, 25-40 x 4 mm.

Distribution

NE Upper Burma, China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Huhei, Guangxi, Anhui)

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References

Philipson, W.R. & Philipson, M.N. (1986) A Revision of Rhododendron III. Subgenera Azaleastrum, Mumeazalea, Candidastrum and Therorhodion. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 44(1):14