Shrub or rarely small tree. Leaves mostly in whorls of 3-5 at branch tips, mostly 5-10 cm long (occasionally more), 2-5 cm wide. Flowers 8-15 per cluster, tubular to 3 cm long, pale yellow to dark orange, or yellow in the tube and reddish orange at the lobes.
New Guinea
Forms natural hybrids.
Source: (1997). Rhododendron. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.