Rhododendron flinckii

R. flinckii

Jens Birck

Jens Birck

Marc Colombel

Marc Colombel

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.