Rhododendron stolleanum Schltr.

Bot. Jahr. 1917. 55: 143.

WFO ID: wfo-0000405417

IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333411-1

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Description

Much-branched shrub to 1m. Twigs rounded, scaly and hairy initially. Leaves opposite, narrowly to very narrowly ovate. Blade 40–80 x 12–32mm; apex acute or obtuse; base broadly tapering or rounded; sparsely brown-scaly above, covered beneath with a brown scaly covering initially. Petiole 3–4mm. Umbels 2–4-flowered. Pedicels 13–15mm, slender, densely scaly-hairy. Calyx c.3mm in diameter, saucer-shaped, very shortly and bluntly 5-lobed. Corolla c.25mm, tubular, 5-lobed c.halfway, glabrous outside, minutely shortly hairy inside, lilac, the lobes obliquely obovate-oval, obtuse, glabrous on both sides. Stamens c.20mm long; fila­ments filiform, sparsely shortly hairy or almost glabrous; anthers c.1.5mm, oblong. Ovary c.8mm, narrowly oblong, very densely and shortly stellate-scaly-hairy; style subulate, glabrous; stigma obliquely globose, 5-lobed.

Distribution

Papua New Guinea, Upper Sepik R. region: camp ‘Felsspitze’, c.141°30’E

        4°10'S

Altitude

Habitat

Epiphytic in low mountain forest.

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Argent, G. (2006) Rhododendrons of subgenus Vireya. RHS:London. Page:101