Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Rhododendron minus Michx. Jour. Hist. Nat. 1: 412. 1792
Rhododendron punctatum Andr. Bot. Repos. pi. 36. 1798. Rhododendron Cuthhertii Small, Torreya 2: 9. 1902.
A branching straggling shrub, with resinous-dotted foliage; leaf-blades elliptic or oval, 3-12 cm. long, acute or somewhat acuminate at both ends, deep-green above, paler and copiously resinous-dotted beneath; petioles stout, but relatively long, resinous and more or less pubescent at least when young; calyx-lobes deltoid, often broadly so or rarely deltoid-ovate; corolla clear rose-colored, 2.5-3 cm. long, funnelform-campanulate, the tube rather long; longer filaments more than 2.5 cm. long; anthers about 2.5 mm. long; capsules oblong or oblongovoid, 8-12 mm. long.
Type locality: Banks of the Savannah river near Augusta, Georgia.
Distribution: Piedmont region and adjacent coastal plain, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
- 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
