Main features of the subsection :
Large shrubs or small trees ; young shoots tomentose or glandular-setose. Leaves elliptic or oblong to obovate, lower surface with a more or less persistent to evanescent, tomentum composed of flagellate, folioliferous, long-rayed or stellate hairs. Inflorescence lax or dense, 5-20-flowered. Calyx usually minute, rarely to 10mm. Corolla 5-flowered, white to pink or deep red, with or without a basal blotch, narrowly to widely campanulate, with nectar pouches . Stamens 10.
Ovary tomentose to
stalked-glandular ; style glabrous or at least partly glandular.
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subgenus Hymenanthes
Rhododendron anwheiense
Rhododendron morii var. taitunense
Rhododendron pseudochrysanthum var. nankotaisanense
