Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Therorhodion camtschaticum (Pall.) Small
Rhododendron camtschaticum Pall. Fl. Ross. 1: 48. 1784. Rhodothamnus camtschaticus Lindl.; Paxt. Fl. Gard. 1: pi, 22. 1853.
A low or depressed shrub, mostly less than 2 dm. tall, usually much branched; leaf-blades cuneate to obovate, or oval on the upper part of the plant, 1-4 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, except the glandular tip, obscmrely crenate, bristly ciliate, veiny at maturity, shining, sessile or nearly so; calyx-lobes oblong to cufieate, mostly 9-21 mm. long in anthesis, glandularpubescent and bristly-ciliate; corolla rose-piurple, 2-2.5 cm. long, pubescent, the lobes erose and often ciliolate; capsules ovoid, 8-10 mm. long.
Type locality: Shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, Kamtchatka. Distribution: Alaska, through the Aleutian Islands to Japan.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
