Description

Shrub, to 3m; young shoots densely adpressed brown-strigose, becoming pale greyish-brown, sometimes glabrescent. Leaves crowded towards ends of branches, dimorphic, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong; spring leaves 3.5-4.5 x 1.3-1.8cm, apex shortly acute, base cuneate, margin strigose, upper surface brown-strigose, lower surface silky reddi-sh-brown-strigose; summer leaves smaller, oblong-lanceolate, 16-20 x 6-7mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 4mm, densely brown-strigose. Inflorescence 5-6(-8)-flowered; pedicels 10mm, densely brown-strigose. Calyx minute, strigose, lobes crenulate. Corolla narrowly funnel-campanulate, 28mm, pinkish-red; tube 15mm, glabrous. Stamens 8-9, puberulent to above middle. Ovary densely silky brown-strigose; style glabrous. Capsule 7mm, ovoid, densely strigose.

Distribution

China (N Guangdong, S Hunan)

Altitude

Habitat

Riversides

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):109