Main features of the subsection :
Small shrubs, to 2m ; young shoots scaly , covered with a ferrugineous indumentum, or puberulous, sometimes also with glands. Leaves evergreen, usually strongly revolute, lower surface with epidermis white-papillate and often also with a white setulose indumentum, sometimes also with a varying amount of ferrugineous tomentum. Inflorescence a many-flowered terminal corymb. Calyx obsolete or small. Corolla rotate, 4-10mm ; stamens 7-12, regularly arranged ; style straight.
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subgenus Rhododendron
Rhododendron groenlandicum
Rhododendron neoglandulosum
