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Family: Ericaceae
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Rhododendron chunii subsp. vietnamense R.A.Baines & D.F.Chamb.
Isotype of Rhododendron chunii subsp. vietnamense R.A.Baines & D.F.Chamb.
Country/Territory: United Kingdom
Garden collecting location: Z30 - Gunnera Bog - Logan
Verbatim garden collecting location: Z30:Logan - Next to Z64 from Stone Drain to Gates Opposite Cottages
Description: Small shrub, to 2 m; young shoots covered with erectopatent bristles, stipitate glands and flattened strigose red-brown hairs. Leaves monomorphic, coriaceous, persistent, elliptic to oblong-ovate, 1–2 × 0.5–0.9 cm, 2 as long as broad, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, upper surface strigose, lower surface paler, strigose, especially on midrib; petiole 2–3 mm, strigose. Inflorescence 2- to 3-flowered; pedicels 5–7 mm, densely brown[1]strigose. Calyx strigose; lobes 1–2 mm, oblanceolate. Corolla funnel-shaped, lilac-purple, upper lobes flecked, 9–10 mm; tube 6 × 3 mm, with 5 rows of glands on the outer surface, glandular within but glabrous outside. Stamens 5, subequal, filaments minutely hairy below.
Collection number: 73
Collection date: 23rd April 2019
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SHEET
Barcode: E01045108
Herbarium region: Cultivated (Cultivated)
Number of sheets: 1
This specimen is a voucher for RBGE accession: 20150480A
20150480
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