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Rhododendron simsii Planch #113063804
Description
Deciduous shrubs with 2 -5 meters high; branched and slender and densely covered with bright brown flat strigose. Ye Jizhi, often in the branch end, ovate, elliptic ovate or obovate or obovate to oblanceolate, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5-3 cm wide, apex short acuminate, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, margin slightly revolute, denticulate, dark green above, sparsely strigose, pale white below brown, densely strigose, midvein impressed above, below the convex; petiole length 2-6 mm, densely brown strigose bright flat. Flower buds ovoid, scales above middle part of stroughed hairs, margin with eyelashes. 2-3 -6 clusters Zhiding; pedicel length 8 mm, densely covered with light brown strigose; calyx deeply 5 - lobed, lobes triangular - ovate oblong, ca. 5 mm long, strigose, margin with eyelashes; corolla broadly funnel-shaped, rose color, bright red or dark red, long 3.5-4 cm, 1.5-2 cm wide, lobes 5, obovate, 2.5-3 cm long, upper lobes with deep red spots; stamens 10, approximately equal with corolla, filaments filiform, puberulent below middle; ovary ovoid, room 10, light brown densely strigose, glabrous style exserted from the corolla.