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Family: Ericaceae
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Rhododendron charitopes subsp. charitopes
Holotype of Rhododendron charitopes subsp. charitopes
Collector/Expedition: Farrer, Reginald John
Collection number: 1627
Collection date: 18th June 1920
Country/Territory: Myanmar:Kachin
Collecting locality: Myanmar:Kachin State:NE Burma, Shing Hong Pass [on the Turon/Dulong river]
Habitat: On cliffs, among boulders, on rocky slopes, rarely in scrub
Description: A particularly charming plant with the last, but a loose bush of 9 inches to a foot, very copious with 3- (very rarely 4-) bloomed inflorescences. Flowers a clear apple blossom pink, but fluched with more armly in their upper lobe and speckled with crimson, and with a deep-rose tube.
Miscellaneous notes: 2 spp. of pure albinoes opn the Chawchi pass also a natural hybrid with F.1670 See F.1726[Rh. charopoeum]
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SHEET
Barcode: E00010235
Herbarium region: 5C (Myanmar (Burma))
Number of sheets: 1
Associated material:
Herbarium sheetE00314380
Herbarium sheetE00314379
Herbarium sheetE00314378
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