Small shrubs, often prostrate ; young shoots scaly, sometimes also pubescent. Leaves evergreen, revolute, margins sometimes crenulate, scales on lower surface dense, unequal or equal, rimless or with undulate rims. Inflorescence terminal, 1-3-flowered, leaves beneath inflorescence bract-like. Calyx with definite lobes. Corolla funnel-campanulate ; stamens 10, declinate ; style impressed, declinate, or straight.
Rhododendron ludlowii Rhododendron pemakoense Rhododendron pumilum Rhododendron uniflorum var. imperator Rhododendron uniflorum var. uniflorum