R. luciferum

Jens Birck



subgenus Hymenanthes
section Ponticum
subsection Lanata

 
Main features of the subsection :

Shrubs or small trees, to 7.5m. Leaves obovate to elliptic, lower surface covered with a dense one-layered, light brown to rufous, lanate or crisped tomentum composed of dendroid hairs. Inflorescence lax or dense, 3-15-flowered. Calyx minute. Corolla 5-lobed, yellow or white to pink, campanulate to open-campanulate, lacking nectar pouches. Ovary densely tomentose or (rarely) predominantly glandular ; style glabrous.
 

Rhododendron circinnatum
Rhododendron flinckii
Rhododendron lanatoides
Rhododendron lanatum
Rhododendron luciferum
Rhododendron tsariense var. trimoense
Rhododendron tsariense var. tsariense



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