Herbarium catalogue

ISOTYPE es of Engdodendxoy stepinne eeploides ae ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN WM E01045109 HERB. HORT. EDINB. Cultivated Plants Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Ericaceae Rhododendron tephropeploides R.A.Baines & D.F.Chamb. Determined by: Chamberlain, D.F. & Baines, R.A. Living collection info.: Baines, R. No. 71 23 APR 2019 Accession number & Qualifier: 20150482*A Z42 Logan: Bottom Glasshouses & Frames Shrub to 1.2 m tall; bark longitudinally peeling, mahogany. Leaves narrowly elliptic, subacute, apiculate, base cuneate, lamina (30—)50-60 x 20-25 mm, dark green above, lower surface grey, papillose; scales sunk in pits, dense, to twice their diameter apart, dimorphic, the smaller whitish, the larger rufous and scattered; petioles 50-90 mm, densely lepidote, otherwise glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, 3- to 6-flowered, rachis short. Calyx lobes 5-orbicular, c.1 mm long, scaly below. Corolla funnel-shaped, whitish to pale pink, 30-35 mm long, tube 15 mm long, glabrous on outer and inner surfaces. Filaments glabrous. Ovary lepidote; style impressed, lepidote at base. Capsule ovoid, c.7 x 2-3 mm, densely scaly. Associated material: herb. specimen (Holotype) (HN); Grown on from original wild collection: Hanoi, UBC, Logan Botanic Garden, Longwood & Kew. Exped to Vietnam (2014) 162 VIET NAM: Lao Cai: Ton Station. Steep bank at side of path. Growing alongside R. crenulatum. 2,605 m. 22°19'12.48"N, 103°46'11.46"E. 01 NOV 2014 xo} co) > i“ co) on ® a ce = foe: = | > 2. ° cS) Meee0564