Description

Shrub, c.3.5m, shoots punctulate, adpressed-hairy; floral buds viscid. Leaves dimorphic, chartaceous; spring leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 1.5-1.8 x c.0.7cm, apex shortly acute or acuminate, margin entire, ciliate, upper surface adprcssed-strigose, lower surface paler, with a brown pannose indumentum intermixed with brownish strigose hairs; summer leaves 5~9mm long, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles 4-6mm, densely brownish-sericeous-strigose. Inflorescence 3-4~flowered; floral buds viscid; pedicels 3-4.5mm, densely strigose. Calyx small, brownish-strigose, lobes cren-ate. Corolla funnel-campanulate, c.9mm, colour unknown; tube 4 x 3mm, outer surface hairy, inner surface glabrous. Stamens 5, filaments puberulent below. Ovary strigose; style densely strigose in lower half. Capsule ovoid, 5-6 x c.4.5mm, strigose.

Distribution

China (NE Guangxi)

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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):134