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Rhododendron tephropeplum Balf.f. & Farrer (E00010092)

CETAF ID: http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00010092
Catalogue Number: E00010092
Scientific Name: Rhododendron tephropeplum Balf.f. & Farrer
Collector Number: 8165
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Rhododendron
Species: tephropeplum
Field Notes: A thin scraggy shrub. Leaves closely lepidote below, the scales black, giving a smoky grey colour. Leafty calyx with a few crimson scales near the base, stigma crimson, style as long as corolla tube, with a few bright crimson scales at the base, curved so as to bring the stigma outside the staminal ring. Stamens 10, unequal. The anthers gathered into a loose ring and the lowers ones slightly upturned. Filaments hairy at the base. Ovary encrusted with shining crimson scales full of secretion. Pedicel as well as calyx with scattered scales. Corolla glabrous.
Country: India
State/Province: Arunachal Pradesh
Locality: India:Arunachal Pradesh:Assam; Delei valley