Rhododendron campylogynum Franch.

Bent-style rhododendron (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Rhododendron

Characteristics

Small shrubs, usually prostrate, creeping or decumbent, evergreen, 0.025–0.1(–1.8) m tall; branchlets short, sparsely scaly, otherwise glabrous or pubescent. Petiole 2–4 mm, scaly; leaf blade leathery, obovate to obovate-lanceolate, 0.7–2.5(–3) × 0.3–1.2(–1.8) cm; base tapering; margin crenulate; apex rounded, mucronate; abaxial surface often whitish or silvery, scales 1–6 × their own diameter apart, small, deciduous; adaxial surface dark green, usually shiny, scales rarely present. Inflorescence umbellate, 1–4(–5)-flowered. Pedicel ca. 5 cm, erect, up to 7 cm in fruit; calyx lobes 1–6 mm, rounded to ovate-oblong, persistent, scales usually absent; corolla broadly campanulate, fleshy, pruinose, pink to purple, 1–2(–2.3) cm; tube 7–12 mm, glabrous, inner surface sparsely pubescent; stamens (8–)10, shorter than corolla, filaments puberulous in lower 1/2 their length; ovary scaly; style thick, bent or sharply deflexed, glabrous. Capsule ovoid, 5–9 mm, scaly.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Environment

Light 4-8
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-4
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-10

Usage

Uses environmental use
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, graftings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings graftings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 50 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
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Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -18
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Images

Rhododendron campylogynum unspecified picture

Distribution

Rhododendron campylogynum world distribution map, present in China, India, and Myanmar

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332099-1
WFO ID wfo-0001230885
COL ID 4SFKK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Rhododendron caeruleoglaucum Rhododendron cremastum Rhododendron glaucoaureum Rhododendron damascenum Rhododendron myrtilloides Rhododendron campylogynum Rhododendron campylogynum var. cremastum Rhododendron campylogynum var. myrtilloides Rhododendron campylogynum var. celsum

Lower taxons

Rhododendron campylogynum var. charapoeum