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锦绣杜鹃Rhododendron pulchrum Sweet

锦绣杜鹃Rhododendron pulchrum Sweet

别名:毛鹃;春鹃;紫杜鹃;鲜艳杜鹃;毛杜鹃;艳紫杜鹃;夏鹃;鹃花;琉球红;

科名:杜鹃花科 Ericaceae

属名:杜鹃属 Rhododendron

《中国植物志》第57(2)卷384页
  286.锦绣杜鹃(中国树木分类学)鲜艳杜鹃(中国植物学会杂志)
  Rhododendron pulchrum Sweet in Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, 2: t. 117. 1832; Wils. in Wils. et Rehd. Monog. Azal. 62: 1921; Rehd. in Stevenson, Spec. Rhodod. 97. 1930; Fang in Journ. Bot. Soc. China 2(2): 616. 1935; 陈嵘, 中国树木分类学951. 1937; 中国高等植物图鉴3: 153. 图4259. 1974; 华南杜鹃花志41. 1983.——R. indicum var. smithii Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2. 343. 1830.——R. indicum var. pulchrum G. Don, Gen. Syst. 3: 845. 1834. ——R. phoeniceum f. smithii Wils. in Wils. et Rehd. , Monog. Azal. 62. 1921.
  半常绿灌木,高1.5-2.5米;枝开展,淡灰褐色,被淡棕色糙伏毛。叶薄革质,椭圆状长圆形至椭圆状披针形或长圆状倒披针形,长2-5(-7)厘米,宽1-2.5厘米,先端钝尖,基部楔形,边缘反卷,全缘,上面深绿色,初时散生淡黄褐色糙伏毛,后近于无毛,下面淡绿色,被微柔毛和糙伏毛,中脉和侧脉在上面下凹,下面显著凸出;叶柄长3-6毫米,密被棕褐色糙伏毛。花芽卵球形,鳞片外面沿中部具淡黄褐色毛,内有粘质。伞形花序顶生,有花1-5朵;花梗长0.8-1.5厘米,密被淡黄褐色长柔毛;花萼大,绿色,5深裂,裂片披针形,长约1.2厘米,被糙伏毛;花冠玫瑰紫色,阔漏斗形,长4.8-5.2厘米,直径约6厘米,裂片5,阔卵形,长约3.3厘米,具深红色斑点;雄蕊10,近于等长,长3.5-4厘米,花丝线形,下部被微柔毛;子房卵球形,长3毫米,径2毫米,密被黄褐色刚毛状糙伏毛,花柱长约5厘米,比花冠稍长或与花冠等长,无毛。蒴果长圆状卵球形,长0.8-1厘米,被刚毛状糙伏毛,花萼宿存。花期4-5月,果期9-10月。
  产江苏、浙江、江西、福建、湖北、湖南、广东和广西。著名栽培种,传说产我国,但至今未见野生,栽培变种和品种繁多,不予列出。
  本种与白花杜鹃 R. mucronatum G. Don 相似,但本种的花冠为玫瑰紫色,植物体各部无腺头毛,易于区别。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 14 (2005)
Rhododendron x pulchrum  
锦绣杜鹃   jin xiu du juan
Shrubs, semievergreen, 1.5–2.5 tall; branches coarsely pale brown strigose. Petiole 3–6 mm, densely appressed setose; leaf blade thinly leathery, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 2–5(–7) × 1–2.5 cm; base cuneate; margin revolute and entire; apex obtuse. Inflorescence 1–5-flowered. Pedicel 0.8–1.5 cm, densely yellowish brown villous; calyx deeply lobed; lobes lanceolate, large, ca. 1.2 cm, coarsely strigose; corolla broadly funnelform, rose-purple, with dark red flecks, 4.8–5.2 × ca. 6 cm; lobes broadly ovate, ca. 3.3 cm; stamens 10, subequal, 3.5–4 cm, filaments linear, pubescent below; ovary ovoid, ca. 3 × 2 mm, densely coarsely yellow-brown appressed setose; style ca. 5 cm, as long as or slightly longer than corolla, glabrous. Capsule oblong-ovoid, 8–10 mm, coarsely setose-strigose, calyx persistent. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Sep–Oct.
Cultivated. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.
The name Rhododendron ×pulchrum applies to cultivated plants. It is said that the species originated in China, but it is unknown in the wild. According to Sweet, in the protologue, it is a horticultural hybrid derived from “R. ledifolium, of Hooker, impregnated by the pollen of the Old Red R. indicum.”

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