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Rhododendron hylaeum Balf.f. & Farrer
Holotype of Rhododendron hylaeum Balf.f. & Farrer
Collector/Expedition: Farrer, Reginald John
Collection number: 1551
Collection date: 15th May 1920
Country/Territory: Myanmar:Kachin
Collecting locality: Myanmar:Kachin State:Chawchi Pass [on the Turon/Dulong river. potentially in China]
Locality as recorded by collector: N.E. Upper Burma
Description: A tidy round headed tree of 20-40 feet with trunk remarkably smooth and bare and bald (see branchlets). Flowers so far gone by May 15 (though snow was all about) that only after long search were specimens obtained. They are scentless, pink and handsome,spotted rather carelessly on all the lobes. This develops the bole of a forest tree, twisting and sprawling like limbs of an elephant
Miscellaneous notes: Irroratum Series?
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SPECIMEN/SHEET
Barcode: E00001264
Herbarium region: 5C (Myanmar (Burma))
Number of sheets: 1
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