Main features of the subsection :
Shrub or small tree, 2-6m ; young shoots glandular-setose.
Leaves ovate to oblanceolate, lower surface covered with stalked glands and bristles, or with a dense matted indumentum composed of ramiform hairs .
Inflorescence lax, 6-14-flowered. Calyx well-developed , 5-15mm. Corolla 5-lobed, white, sometimes flushed pink, usually with a basal blotch, campanulate to funnel-campanulate, lacking nectar pouches. Stamens 10. Ovary densely stalked-glandular ; style glabrous, glandular at base or setose-glandular.
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subgenus Hymenanthes
Rhododendron adenosum
Rhododendron diphrocalyx
