Rhododendron roxieoides
Billeder af Rhododendron roxieoides
Beskrivelse
R. roxieoides (Taliensia). Denne art har røde blomster og har kirtler på den nederste del af griflen og kun fundet i Øst Sichuan og genfundet i 2012/743. c.w. roxieoides, JN Acc# 11025, NØ Chongqing 2350 m. R. roxieanum har en glat griffel.
Hans Eiberg
RBGE Herbarium; R. roxieoides (no data)
Drawing of R. roxieoides
Flora of China
R. roxieoides D. F. Chamberlain, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 39: 478. 1982.
Shrubs, ca. 2.5 m tall; young shoots densely tawny to gray woolly-tomentose; bud scales persistent. Petiole 5–10 mm, densely woolly-tomentose; leaf blade thickly leathery, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 5.5–7.5 × 1–1.8 cm; base cuneate; margin conspicuously revolute; apex acuminate; abaxial surface with indumentum 2-layered, upper layer chestnut, thickly woolly, hairs branched, lower layer whitish and compacted; adaxial surface green, shiny, glabrous except for tomentose groove of midrib. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate, 12–16-flowered; rachis ca. 5 mm. Pedicel 0.7–1 cm, densely tomentose; calyx lobes 5, ca. 2 mm, triangular, densely tomentose and glandular-hairy outside; corolla funnel-campanulate, deep red, with purple spots, 2.5–3 cm, lobes 5; stamens (9 or)10, unequal, filaments puberulent in lower part; ovary ca. 5 mm, with a few short glandular hairs; style exserted, subequal to corolla, glandular in lower 1/2; stigma capitate, green. Fl. May.
Forests, valleys; 800–2200 m. Chongqing, E Sichuan.