Rhododendron (diplarche multiflora)

Billede af Rhododendron (diplarche multiflora)

Beskrivelse

R. (Diplarche multiflora). Er en ny gruppe der er indlemmet i Rhododendronfamilien – måske fordi den er tættere knyttet til rhododendron end R. camtschaticum?, som er lidt af en outsider. Diplarche multiflora, optræder nu som R. chamberlainii, og Diplarche pauciflora, optræder nu som R. sophistarum. Måske indlemmet i Rhododendron pga fejlagtig alignment af DNA sekvenser.
Hans Eiberg

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Flora of China

Diplarche multiflora J. D. Hooker & Thomson in Hooker’s, J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 6: 383. 1854.

Plants 8–16 cm tall. Branchlets dark brown, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Leaf blade linear, 6–6.5 × 1–1.1(–1.4) mm, base obtuse, margin spinescent-serrate (teeth usually ending in a glabrous, shining gland), apex subacute. Inflorescence subcapitate, ca. 1 cm, 8–12(–20)-flowered. Bracts elliptic-ovate, 2.5–5.5 mm. Calyx lobes linear-oblong, ca. 4 mm. Corolla ca. 7 mm; tube ca. 4 mm; lobes rounded, ca. 3 mm, patent apex usually slightly sinuate. Stamens: lower 5 attached to corolla, ca. 2 mm. Style purple, ca. 1 mm. Capsule peduncle elongating in fruit to 7 cm, pubescent. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep.

Thickets, alpine meadows, rocky slopes, cliffs; 3500–4100 m. SE Xizang, NW Yunnan [Myanmar, Sikkim].