Rhododendron widjajae
Section Euvireya: Subsection Malesia
Height - ?m - terrestrial
Leaves - elliptic to sub-elliptic-obovate, 2‒2.5 x 0.6‒0.8 mm
Flowers - tubular funnel-shaped - solitary or three together, hanging
Location - Mt. Mekongga, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia, 2,658 m
Epithet - honour of Prof. Elizabeth A. Widjaja, former senior researcher at the Herbarium Bogoriense
and joint collector of this species.
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Rhododendron williamsii
Section Euvireya: Subsection Euvireya
Height - 6m - terrestrial
Leaves - elliptic-ovate - 11 x 5 cm
Flowers - funnel-shaped - 4cm - up to 8 per umbel
Location - Philippines: Mountain and Zambales Provinces - 1500-2200m
Epithet - after Robert S. Williams, an American who was one of the first to collect this species.
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Rhododendron womersleyi
Section Eyvireya: Subsection Linnaeopsis
Height - 2m - mostly terrestrial
Leaves - ovate - 1.4 x 0.9cm
Flowers - tubular - 2.5cm - up to 4 per umbel
Location - Papua New Guinea: Eastern, Western & Southern Highlands - 3200-3960m
Epithet - after John Womersley, former Chief of Division Of Botany in Lae, PNG, and who collected
the type specimen of this species.
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Rhododendron wrightianum var. wrightianum
Section Euvireya: Subsection Malesia
Height - 1m - epiphytic or terrestrial
Leaves - obovate-elliptic - 2 x 1 cm
Flowers - tubular - 3cm - red, pink or rarely white - up to 4 per umbel
Location - Indonesia: W.New Guinea: Oranje & Nassau Mts.; Papua New Guinea: Milne Bay
district: Mt. Garatun - 1370-3250m
Epithet - after C. H. Wright, former assistant keeper of the Kew Herbarium.
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Rhododendron wrightianum var. cyclopense
Section Euvireya: Subsection Malesia
Height - 1m - epiphytic or terrestrial
Leaves - obovate-elliptic - 2 x 1 cm
Flowers - tubular - 3cm - red, pink or rarely white - up to 4 per umbel
Location - Indonesia: W.New Guinea: Mt. Cyclops - 1480-1800m
Epithet - sp. after C. H. Wright, former assistant keeper of the Kew Herbarium; var. - after Mt. Cyclops,
where this variety is found.
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