Deciduous shrub. Scales absent. Inflorescences lateral below vegetative buds, 1-2 flowered. Calyx with 5 large leaf-like gland-fringed lobes. Corolla rotate-campanulate more or less regular. Stamen 10, equal. Ovary globose, impressed below the style. Capsule globose. Seed with appendages at both ends.
subgenus Candidastrum
Rhododendron albiflorum 
