Rhododendron glischrum aff.
Billeder af Rhododendron glischrum aff.
Beskrivelse
R. glischrum aff. (Glischra). Denne planter er en mellemting mellem R. glischrum ssp. glischrum og R. glischrum ssp. rude. Skudene er klistrede fra de mange kirtelhår. Bladene er op til 33 cm, nervede og enten flade eller buede med en forlænget spids, og har flere hår end ssp. glischrum. Bladstilk (petiole) grøn. Fundet på Dapao Shan, Weixi, Yunnan. N27 08.734 E99 15.397 (3.081 m.o.h.).
Remi Aleksander Nielsen
ARS
RBGE Herbarium; R. glischrum
Flora of China
R. glischrum I. B. Balfour & W. W. Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 9: 229. 1916.
Shrubs or small trees, 2.4–7 m tall; older branches stout, grayish, glabrous, shoots ca. 8 mm in diam. below inflorescence; young shoots with glutinous glandular setae. Petiole stout, 18–25 mm, densely glandular-setose; leaf blade subleathery, oblong to broadly oblanceolate, 14–22 × 4.6–6.5 cm; base cuneate or narrowly rounded to subcordate; margin herbaceous, ciliate; apex obtuse or acute; abaxial surface smooth to rugose, setose, glandular-setose and tomentose; adaxial surface smooth to rugose, glabrous except for glandular-setose midrib near base, or setose; midrib raised abaxially, grooved adaxially; lateral veins 13–17 on each side. Inflorescence 10–12-flowered; rachis ca. 15 mm, densely glandular and tomentose. Pedicel 3–4.2 cm, glandular-setose; calyx lobes 5, ca. 1.3 cm, unequal, lingulate, densely glandular-setose, ciliate; corolla campanulate, pink, with purple flecks and basal blotch, 3.5–4 cm, lobes 5, emarginate; stamens 10, 1–3 cm, filaments pubescent at base; ovary conoid, ca. 5 mm, densely glandular-hairy; style 3–4 cm, glabrous or glandular at base. Capsule ca. 15 mm, base enclosed by persistent calyx. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Sep–Oct.
Forests, forest margins, thickets; 2400–3600 m. S Xizang, NW Yunnan [NE India, Myanmar].