Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 10:160 (1917)
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Usually a free-growing shrub to 4 m. Young growth not loriform-setose. Leaves narrowly elliptic, tapered to the base and the somewhat acuminate apex, 80-120 x 30-50 mm, upper surface brownish green, margins often persistently lorifom-ciliate, lower surface brown, with a dense covering of dark, unequal, overlapping flaky scales; petiole glabrous or sometimes loriform-setose. Inflorescence 3-4-flowered, pedicels densely lepidote. Calyx short, disc-like, scarcely lobed, the margins loriform-ciliate. Corolla pale pink (always?), openly funnel-campanulate, (43-)56-65 mm, tube (25-)33-42 mm, pubescent at the base, sparsely lepidote over the whole surface. Stamens 10, filaments pubescent towards the base. Ovary lepidote, tapered into the style which is lepidote to well above the base. Capsule unknown.
Thailand (Chiengmai province)
Jungle,
Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):55