Description

Shrub; young shoots covered with adpressed densely brown strigose hairs. Leaves dimorphic, coriaecous, clustered towards apex; spring leaves obovate to obovate-elliptic, 4.5-5.5 x 2-2.5cm, apex abruptly acuminate to broadly mucronate, base attenuate or narrowly cuneate, margin strongly revolute, upper surface green, yellow when dried, midrib slightly raised, glabrescent, lower surface pale green, sparsely strigose, midrib distinctly raised, with adpressed strigose hairs; summer leaves elliptic, 23 x 4-I0mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 3-5mm, sparsely strigose. Inflorescence c.6-flowered; pedicels 6– 10mm, yellow-brown-strigose. Calyx cup-shaped, lobes deltoid, strigose. Corolla funnel-campanulate, c.l9mm, red; tube 9 x 4mm. Stamens 5, unequal, exserted, filaments compressed-puberulous for the most part. Ovary light brown strigose; style strigose in lower third. Capsule ellipsoid, 10mm, brown-strigose.

Distribution

China (Guangdong)

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References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):107