Rhododendron dasycladoides
Billede af Rhododendron dasycladoides
Beskrivelse
R. dasycladoides (Selensia). Bladet er smalt og bladspidsen er spids, ikke afrundet. Ligner R. selense, men har kirtelhår på undersiden at bladets hovednerve. Unge skud med stive langstilkede kirtelhår. Calyx lober elliptiske, omvendt ægformede-elliptiske eller ægformede, spidser rundede. Bladplade 2-3,5 cm bred; unge skud og bladstilke med kirtel-børster mindre end 2 mm. Blade lidt større end ssp. selense. Griflen uhåret.
Hans Eiberg
Flora of China
R. dasycladoides Handel-Mazzetti, Symb. Sin. 7: 781. 1936.
Shrubs or small trees, 2–5 m tall; old branches grayish white, glabrous; shoots stout, 3–4 mm in diam. below inflorescence; young shoots greenish, densely glandular-hairy. Petiole stout and short, 10–15 mm, densely glandular-setose; leaf blade thinly leathery, narrowly ovate-elliptic to long-elliptic, 4–10 × 2–3.5 cm; base rounded or subcordate; apex acute or acuminate, apiculate; abaxial surface greenish, sparsely glandular-hairy when young, glabrescent, midrib densely glandular-setose; adaxial surface deep green, densely rugulose, glabrous; midrib raised abaxially, impressed adaxially; lateral veins 14–16-paired, inconspicuous on both surfaces. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate, 5–8-flowered; rachis conical, 2–5 mm, densely pubescent. Pedicel stout, 1–1.2 cm, with long-glandular hairs; calyx lobes 5, large, oblong-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, apex rounded, outer surface and margin sparsely setose, 5–8 × 2–4 mm; corolla funnelform, rose-pink, throat with purple spots, 2.8–3.5 cm, lobes 5, rounded, ca. 1.2 cm, apex emarginate; stamens 10, unequal, 1.2–2.2 cm, filaments slightly hairy, anthers oblong-elliptic, ca. 3 mm; ovary ovate, 4–5 mm, densely setose; style 2.5–3 cm, slightly longer than corolla, glabrous; stigma not expanded. Capsule cylindric, curved, ca. 30 × 5 mm. Fl. May.
Forests; 3000–4000 m. SW Sichuan, NW Yunnan.