Rhododendron dianthosmum Sleumer

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'Rhododendron dianthosmum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhododendron/rhododendron-dianthosmum/). Accessed 2024-03-18.

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'Rhododendron dianthosmum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhododendron/rhododendron-dianthosmum/). Accessed 2024-03-18.

Shrub up to 2 m, epiphytic, young stems densely stellate-dendroid scaly at first but quickly rather glaucous, glabrescent. Leaves 9–14 × 3–6 cm, elliptic or broadly elliptic, the apex obtuse or shortly sub-acuminate-attenuate, margin slightly recurved, the base broadly tapering to rounded; upper surface at first brown-scaly, later rough with persistent epidermal tubercles, midrib slightly raised; lower surface with the midrib and lateral veins somewhat raised, scales deeply divided, dendroid, from pronounced and persistent epidermal tubercles. Flowers 4–6 per umbel, more or less horizontal; calyx a scaly ring; corolla white with 6–7 lobes, strongly smelling of carnations, tubular to tubular-funnel-shaped, conspicuously pouched at the base, 5–7 × 2.5–4 cm, glabrous outside; stamens 12–14, irregularly exserted from the mouth; ovary covered with forward pointing hairs and (obscurely) with scales, style hairy in the lower glabrous towards the top. Royal Horticultural Society (1997)

Distribution  Indonesia Irian Jaya, Cycloop Mts

Habitat 500–1,400 m

RHS Hardiness Rating H2

Conservation status Vulnerable (VU)

Close to R. hyacinthosmum but that species has larger flowers with 6–7-lobed corollas. Royal Horticultural Society (1997)