R. stewartianum aff, Foto: Bent Ernebjerg
Ligner noger R. pocophorum/eclecteum (HE)
BE12-46. Foto: Bent Ernebjerg
R. x hemigymum, BE12-46, Foto: Hans Eiberg
Herbarium Key Garden, R. stewartianum aff. (R. niphobolum)
Flora of China
Rhododendron ×hemigymnum (Tagg & Forrest) D. F. Chamberlain (Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 37: 333. 1979 [“hemigynum”]; R. chaetomallum I. B. Balfour & Forrest var. hemigymnum Tagg & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 16: 189. 1931), described from Xizang, is a hybrid between R. pocophorum and R. eclecteum. It is intermediate between the two putative parents, with the broad petiole, leaf blade shape, and setose to stipitate-glandular young shoots and petioles of R. eclecteum, but with a leaf indumentum more typical of R. pocophorum. Both parents occur at the localities from which this entity has been recorded.