Rhododendron stamineum Franch.

Shrubs or small trees, 3–7 m tall; young shoots thin, glabrous. Petioles 8–20 mm, glabrous or shortly glandular-setose; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 6.5–13 × 2–5.5 cm; base cuneate to subrounded; margin slightly revolute; apex acuminate or obliquely acuminate; abaxial surface rarely white-powdery when dried, glabrous or shortly setose towards base; adaxial surface glabrescent, veins obsolete. Inflorescence subapical, (3–)5–8-flowered; flower buds conical, scales ovate, imbricate, pubescent only on the margin and at the apex. Pedicel 2–2.5 cm, glabrous or grayish tomentose when young; calyx lobes minute, triangular, glabrous; corolla funnelform tapering into narrow tube, white to occasionally pink, the upper lobes with yellow flecks within, 3–3.5 cm, tube ca. 13 mm wide; stamens 10, slender, long-exserted, filaments puberulent in lower part; ovary cylindric, tapering into style, ca. 4 mm, glabrous or densely gray-white-tomentose when young; style 4–5 cm, longer than stamens. Capsule cylindric, slightly curved, apex acuminate, 25–40 mm, glabrous. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Jul–Oct.

Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

Mixed forests, open forests, forest margins, thickets, mountains; 400–1500 m.