Stevenson (ed.) The Species of Rhododendron 143 (1930) & Notes R.B.G.
Edinb. 16: 208 (1931).
WFO ID: wfo-0001229416
IPNI ID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333557-1
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Large shrub or small tree; young shoots densely covered with glandular setae. Leaves herbaceous, obovate to oblanceolate, 12-14.5 x 3.5-5cm, 2.4-2.9 x as long as broad, apex cuspidate, base rounded, margin ciliate, upper surface bullate, with strongly impressed veins, glabrous or with a few bristles at base when mature; lower surface with veins covered with glandular setae that are longer on the midrib near the base, also with white vesiculate hairs; petioles 1—2cm, glandular-setose. Inflorescence 10—15-flowered; rhachis up to 5mm; pedicels 15—20mm, densely glandular-setulose, also with short vesiculate hairs. Calyx 8-10mm, glandular-setulose, lobes Ungulate. Corolla funnel-campanulate, white to rose-purple, darker in bud, with purple flecks and a basal blotch. Ovary densely rufous-stipitate-glandular with an understory of short white vesiculate hairs; style glabrous. Capsule not known.
China (W Yunnan, SE Xizang), NE Upper Burma
Rocky slopes, in mixed forests
Chamberlain, D.F. (1982) A Revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 39(2):286