Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China 22:66 (1939)
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Shrub to 0-3 m. Leaves 6-12 x 2-5-5 mm, narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, apex subacute or obtuse, slightly mucronate, base cuneate, undersurface uniform buff, densely covered with overlapping pale scales. Inflorescence 3-7-flowered, pedicels lepidote, 1-2.5 mm. Calyx 0.8-1 mm, the lobes rounded, densely lepidote, margin lepidote and with a few cilia. Corolla pale purplish, broadly funnel-shaped, 4-5-6.8 mm, tube 2-2.8 mm, elepidote outside, slightly pubescent within. Stamens 4-7, shorter than corolla, filaments glabrous. Ovary densely pale lepidote, style c. 2 mm, slightly shorter than the stamens, glabrous. Capsule unknown.
China (E Yunnan)
Open moss land, 2900 m
Cullen, J. (1980) A Revision of Rhododendron 1: Subgenus Rhododendron sections Rhododendron & Pogonanthum. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(1):95