Vasilis Teodoridis:
Apiaceae | Rhododendron
Rhododendron subsect. Irrorata (Tagg) Sleumer; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 74: 548. 1949
292. Rhododendron anthosphaerum Diels; Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 5: 215. 1912.
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Shrubs or small trees; 2–7 m tall; young branches stout; glabrous. Leaf blade thinly leathery or leathery; elliptic-oblanceolate or long-elliptic; 8–14 x 2.5–3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin revolute; apex acuminate to acute; apiculate; abaxial surface pale; thinly clad with scattered hairs; midrib prominent; lateral veins 17–24-paired. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate; 8–10-flowered; rachis 5–10 mm; floccose. Pedicel 1–1.5 cm; sparsely rufous-tomentose or glabrescent; calyx cupular; lobes 6 or 7; ca. 1 mm; corolla tubular-campanulate; rose-magenta or crimson to magenta-blue; with a basal black-crimson blotch; 3–3.5 cm; nectar pouches present; lobes 6 or 7; suborbicular; ca. 1 x 1–1.5 cm; emarginate; crenate; stamens 13–14; unequal; 1.5–2.5 cm; filaments slender; glabrous or puberulent at base; ovary cylindric; ca. 5 x 2.5 mm; glabrous; style as long as corolla; glabrous; stigma small. Capsule 15–25 x 6–8 mm; glabrous; 7–8-lobed at apex when dry. Fl. Apr–May; fr. Jul–Aug.
Mixed Pinus-broad-leaved forests; open slopes; 2000–3500 m. SW Sichuan; SE Xizang; NW Yunnan [NE Myanmar]
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Apiaceae | Rhododendron
Rhododendron subsect. Irrorata (Tagg) Sleumer; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 74: 548. 1949
292. Rhododendron anthosphaerum Diels; Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 5: 215. 1912.
???? tuan hua du juan
Shrubs or small trees; 2–7 m tall; young branches stout; glabrous. Leaf blade thinly leathery or leathery; elliptic-oblanceolate or long-elliptic; 8–14 x 2.5–3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin revolute; apex acuminate to acute; apiculate; abaxial surface pale; thinly clad with scattered hairs; midrib prominent; lateral veins 17–24-paired. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate; 8–10-flowered; rachis 5–10 mm; floccose. Pedicel 1–1.5 cm; sparsely rufous-tomentose or glabrescent; calyx cupular; lobes 6 or 7; ca. 1 mm; corolla tubular-campanulate; rose-magenta or crimson to magenta-blue; with a basal black-crimson blotch; 3–3.5 cm; nectar pouches present; lobes 6 or 7; suborbicular; ca. 1 x 1–1.5 cm; emarginate; crenate; stamens 13–14; unequal; 1.5–2.5 cm; filaments slender; glabrous or puberulent at base; ovary cylindric; ca. 5 x 2.5 mm; glabrous; style as long as corolla; glabrous; stigma small. Capsule 15–25 x 6–8 mm; glabrous; 7–8-lobed at apex when dry. Fl. Apr–May; fr. Jul–Aug.
Mixed Pinus-broad-leaved forests; open slopes; 2000–3500 m. SW Sichuan; SE Xizang; NW Yunnan [NE Myanmar]
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Apiaceae | Rhododendron
Rhododendron subsect. Irrorata (Tagg) Sleumer; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 74: 548. 1949
292. Rhododendron anthosphaerum Diels; Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 5: 215. 1912.
???? tuan hua du juan
Shrubs or small trees; 2–7 m tall; young branches stout; glabrous. Leaf blade thinly leathery or leathery; elliptic-oblanceolate or long-elliptic; 8–14 x 2.5–3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin revolute; apex acuminate to acute; apiculate; abaxial surface pale; thinly clad with scattered hairs; midrib prominent; lateral veins 17–24-paired. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate; 8–10-flowered; rachis 5–10 mm; floccose. Pedicel 1–1.5 cm; sparsely rufous-tomentose or glabrescent; calyx cupular; lobes 6 or 7; ca. 1 mm; corolla tubular-campanulate; rose-magenta or crimson to magenta-blue; with a basal black-crimson blotch; 3–3.5 cm; nectar pouches present; lobes 6 or 7; suborbicular; ca. 1 x 1–1.5 cm; emarginate; crenate; stamens 13–14; unequal; 1.5–2.5 cm; filaments slender; glabrous or puberulent at base; ovary cylindric; ca. 5 x 2.5 mm; glabrous; style as long as corolla; glabrous; stigma small. Capsule 15–25 x 6–8 mm; glabrous; 7–8-lobed at apex when dry. Fl. Apr–May; fr. Jul–Aug.
Mixed Pinus-broad-leaved forests; open slopes; 2000–3500 m. SW Sichuan; SE Xizang; NW Yunnan [NE Myanmar]