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Section Siphonovireya
Height - 1.0m - terrestrial
Leaves - obovate to obovate-elliptic - 6 x 3cm
Flowers - trumpet-shaped - white - 5.5cm -
up to 8 per umbel
Location - W. New Guinea: Main Range from Mt Carstensz to the Hellwig Mts
- 2000-3450m
Epithet - either named after Lake Habbema where originally collected or after D. Habbema, after whom the lake was named.
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Rhododendron haematophthalmum
Section Phaeovireya
Height - 2.5m - terrestrial
Leaves - broadly elliptic - 9 x 3.5cm
Flowers - zygomorphic, curved tubular -red - 5.5cm -
up to 10 per umbel
Location - W. New Guinea: near Wamena, Lake Habbema
- 3000-3225m
Epithet - "haemat" = blood red; "opthalmum"
= eye; referring to the colour of the flowers.
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Rhododendron hellwigii
Section Phaeovireya
Height - 3m - mostly epiphytic
Leaves - ovate - 16 x 10cm - scaly
Flowers - broadly funnel-shaped - 9cm - up to 6 per
umbel
Location - Papua New Guinea: Finisterre & Saruwaged
Mts. - 1065-3050m
Epithet - after F. C. Hellwig, 1861-1889, one of the
first to collect this species.
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Rhododendron helodes
Section Euvireya: Subsection Malesia
Height - 0.5m - terrestrial
Leaves - elliptic - 4.0 x 1.5cm
Flowers - tubular - 3.5cm - up
to 4 per umbel
Location - Indonesia: W. New Guinea: Lake Habbema - 3225m
Epithet - from the Greek, "growing in marshy places"
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Rhododendron herzogii
Section Siphonovireya
Height - 2m - mostly epiphytic
Leaves - elliptic - 6 x 4cm - aromatic
Flowers - trumpet-shaped, curved - 9cm - up to 10 per
umbel - scented
Location - Indonesia & New Guinea: common on main
range - 1500-2500m
Epithet - after Th. Herzog, a missionary in New Guinea.
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Rhododendron himantodes var. himantodes
Section Malayovireya
Height - 2m - usually epiphytic
Leaves - linear - 12 x 0.6cm - scaly
Flowers - saucer-shaped - 2.7cm across - up to 15 per
umbel - scales on outside of the corolla
Location - Malaysia: Sabah: Mt. Kinabalu, Mt. Trus Madi,
Mt. Alab, Long Pasia;
Sarawak: Mt. Mulu, Mt. Api, Mt. Murud; Indonesia: Kalimantan:
Mt. Kingkemul - 1300-2000m
Epithet - alluding to the narrow strap-like leaf shape
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Rhododendron hyacinthosmum
Section Phaeovireya
Height - 3m - epiphytic or terrestrial
Leaves - elliptic to ovate - 9 x 5cm - scaly
Flowers - tubular-funnel-shaped - 10cm - scented - up
to 5 per umbel
Location - Papua New Guinea: Milne Bay Province - 1800-2070m
Epithet - "scented of hyacinths"
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