Rhododendron alutaceum Balf.F. & W.W.Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Rhododendron

Characteristics

Shrubs, 1.5–4 m tall; young shoots and petioles densely woolly-tomentose and/or glandular; bud scales deciduous or ± persistent. Petiole 10–15 mm; leaf blade thickly leathery, oblong, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5–14 × 1.5–3.5 cm; base obtuse or subrounded; margin revolute; apex acute or shortly acuminate; abaxial surface with indumentum 2-layered, upper layer thick, woolly or felted, pale brown, rufous, rust-red, sometimes ± detersile, hairs branched, lower layer gray-white and compacted; adaxial surface glabrous. Inflorescence racemose-umbellate, 10–15-flowered; rachis 10–18 mm. Pedicel 1.5–2 cm, sparsely floccose and short-glandular-hairy or eglandular; calyx lobes 5, ca. 1 mm, subrounded, sparsely ciliate outside, margin glandular-ciliate; corolla campanulate or funnel-campanulate, white to pink, with crimson spots and with purple red basal blotch, 3.5–4 cm, lobes 5; stamens 10, unequal, filaments densely white-puberulent; ovary ca. 6 mm, densely tomentose and glandular-hairy to glabrous or sparsely floccose-tomentose and eglandular; style glabrous. Capsule cylindric, 10–15 × ca. 4 mm. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Sep–Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 4.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 50 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
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Images

Rhododendron alutaceum unspecified picture

Distribution

Rhododendron alutaceum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331912-1
WFO ID wfo-0001048673
COL ID 4SFDB
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Rhododendron globigerum Rhododendron alutaceum Rhododendron alutaceum var. alutaceum Rhododendron roxieanum var. globigerum

Lower taxons

Rhododendron alutaceum var. russotinctum Rhododendron alutaceum var. iodes