Rhododendron sparsifolium W.P.Fang

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Rhododendron

Characteristics

Shrubs, ca. 3 m tall; branchlets slender, dark purple, subglabrous. Petioles ca. 3 mm, glabrous; leaf blade papery or subleathery, oblong-elliptic or subelliptic, 2.5–3.5 × 0.8–1.2 cm; base cuneate or broadly cuneate; apex tapering or acuminate; abaxial surface sparsely setose; adaxial surface glabrous, lateral veins 5–7-paired, conspicuous only below. Inflorescence 5–7-flowered. Pedicel stout, 1–1.5 cm, densely long-setose; calyx cup-shaped, deeply lobed; lobes membranous, ovate, ca. 3 mm, outer surface long-setose, margin white-fimbriate; corolla funnelform, rose, upper 3 lobes with purple flecks, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm; tube cylindric, 6–8 mm, glabrous; lobes broadly elliptic, ca. 0.6 cm, apex acuminate; stamens 5, shorter than corolla, filaments glabrous; ovary conical, ca. 3 mm, densely long-setose; style longer than stamens, long-setose below. Fl. May–Jun.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Germination duration (days) 50 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
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Distribution

Rhododendron sparsifolium world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:902936-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219683
COL ID 4SGW3
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Synonyms

Rhododendron sparsifolium