Description

Shrub or small tree, 0.6-8m. Leaves obovate to elliptic, 7-13 x 3-6.5cm, 2-3 x as long as broad, apex apiculate to acuminate, base rounded, lower surface with a dense powdery compacted unistrate indumentum composed of rust-red, short- or long-rayed radiate hairs; petioles 1-2.5cm, floccose. Inflorescence 6-15-flowered; rhachis c.lOmm; pedicels 10-15mm, tomentose. Calyx c.lmm, glabrous. Corolla funnel-campanulate, white, sometimes flushed with rose, with crimson flecks, 25-45mm. Ovaryglabrous or sparsely red-brown tomentose; style glabrous. Capsule 15-25 x 8mm, straight or curved. ** * Rhododendron traillianum * var. * dictyotum * ** Hair arms of leaf indumentum long, ribbon-like; leaf apex apiculate to acuminate; corolla (35-)45mm. ** * Rhododendron traillianum * var. * traillianum * ** Hair arms of leaf indumentum short and pyriform; leaf apex apiculate; corolla 25-35mm.

Distribution

Altitude

Habitat

Open slopes, pine forest margins

Nomenclatural History

Notes

References

Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):354