Kinds of Chinese name: Rhododendron Southern Tibet
Latin species name: rhododendron principis bur. Et franch.
Kinds of aliases: purple rhododendron (Flora of Tibet)
Elevation :3800-4500
Name Source: [journ. De bot. 5: 93. 1891]
Flora of China: 57 (2): 232
Subgroup Chinese name: Rhododendron subgroup Dali
Subgroup Latin name: subsect. taliensia sleumer
Group Chinese name: evergreen azalea group
Group Latin name: sect. ponticum g. don
Asia is a Chinese name: evergreen Rhododendron subgenus
Asia is a Latin name: subgen. hymenanthes (blume) k. koch
Is a Chinese name: Rhododendron
Is a Latin name: rhododendron
Subfamily Chinese name: Rhododendron subfamily
Subfamily Latin name: rhododendroideae drude
Section Chinese name: Ericaceae
Kela Ding Name: ericaceae
Gang Chinese name: dicotyledons Gang
Gang Latin name: dicotyledoneae
Door Chinese name: angiosperms door
Doors Latin name: angiospermae
Characteristics:
A small evergreen tree, 1-2.5 m high; shoots are white or light brown hair, and soon fall off, into seven hair. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic or oblong obovate, 5-7.5 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, apex obtuse or acute tip, with a small tip, base obtuse or rounded, slightly anti-roll edge, above the hairless , Wei Zhou, recessed midrib, lateral veins 12-13 pairs, slightly concave, the following has two hair is, the upper hair is thick, cinnamon, felt hairy, short hair formed by the branching, non-surface membrane, the lower hair was thin, white, close, raised in the veins, hair, lateral veins are hidden within the hair; petioles about 1 cm, longitudinal groove on the mask, is gray hair, following nearly round, hairless. Apical short racemose umbels, flowering 8-12 flowers, the total shaft is short, about 5 mm, sparsely puberulent; pedicels 1 - 1.5 cm, sparsely puberulent; calyx small, length of 1.5 mm, glabrous, 5 teeth lobed, lobes with eyelash edges; Corolla funnel-shaped bell-shaped, 2.5-3 cm long, white or pink, with purple spots inside the side, the base is white puberulent , lobes 5, nearly round, 1 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, missing the top of a slight light; stamens 10, unequal length, length 1.2 - 2.2 cm, sparsely white flowers fibroin Ministry puberulent, anthers oblong, pale brown, length 2 mm; pistil shorter than corolla, slightly longer than the stamens; ovary conical, length 6 mm, glabrous or sparsely by a few white hairs, style glabrous, stigma head-like. Capsule cylindrical, upright, 5 crack, 1.5-2 cm long, 3-4 mm in diameter, 2 cm long stems. Flowering from May to June, the fruit of August.
Distribution of origin:
Production in southern China and southeast Tibet. Born in elevation 3800--4500 m coniferous forest or rhododendron shrubs. Specimens collected from Lhasa, Tibet (lhassa).
The kinds of tips:
The following types of leaves hair is thick, cinnamon, felt hairy, non-surface membrane, capsule erect, easy to distinguish. Purple rhododendron in the name, as early as "China's higher plant field guide" has been used, not the species, in order to avoid duplication, it is proposed in the name of azalea southern Tibet.
References:
rhododendron principis bur. et franch. in journ. dc bot. 5:93.1891; taggin stevenson, spec. rhodod. 681.1930; cullen et chamb, in not. bet. gard. edinb. 36:119.1978; chamb. in not. bet. gard, edinb. 39:357. 1982; proparte, excl. syn. r. vellereum hutch. ex tagg; Tibet Flora 3:621, Figure 246:8 --121,986.
Families and genera of Ericaceae Rhododendron
Morphological characteristics of a small evergreen tree. High 1.5-3m. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-obovate or oblong-lanceolate, gray to brown back. Short raceme 8-13 flowers, corolla pink, with purple spots. Flowering from June to August.
Cold. Tibet's endemic plants. Production in southern Tibet to the south-east, more than 3600-4500m above sea level was born in the alpine shrub, dark coniferous forest edge. |