Description

Much-branched shrub; shoots densely covered with adpressed flattened brown hairs. Leaves dimorphic, chartaceous; spring leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5-4 x 0.9-1.2cm, 2-4 x as long as broad, margin entire, slightly recurved, apex acute and mucronate, base cuneatc, both upper and lower surfaces at first clothed with rufous-grey silky hairs, at maturity with white adpressed hairs on upper surface, midrib impressed above, prominent below; summer leaves c.15 x 7mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 2-5mm, clothed with adpressed chestnut-brown hairs. Inflorescence 2-4-flowered; pedicels 5-7mm, clothed with adpressed ferrugineous hairs, hidden by the bud scales. Calyx small, with oval lobes, densely clothed with flattened brown hairs. Corolla funnel-campanulate, 15-20mm, lilac-purple; tube c.8mm, 3mm wide at base, glabrous. Stamens 6-10, slightly exserted, papillose below the middle. Ovary densely covered with ferrugineous flattened hairs; style exserted, with a few flattened brown hairs at base. Capsule conic-ovoid, densely covered with flattened adpressed rufous hairs.

Distribution

Philippine Islands (Luzon)

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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):127