Botanical name: Rhododendron campylocarpum Hook.f.

Description:

An aromatic shrub or a small tree to 6m tall. Branchlets are covered with stalked glands. Leaves ovate-elliptic, rounded or apiculate at apex; Shallowly cordate at base, whitish and glabrous beneath. Petioles have stalked glands. Flowers in racemes with 5-13 flowers in a single raceme. Pedicels bears stalked glands. Calyx is cup-shaped with 5 lobes. Corolla bell-shaped with 5 lobes, pale yellow in color, sometimes with a red basal blotch. Stamens 10. Ovary densely covered by stalked glands with the style glandular at base and glabrous above. Seed capsules strongly curved.

Habitat:

Hemlock, Fir/Rhododendron forests from 3050-4200m. Flowering: May-July Date & place of photography: May 2017 at Lamsela (Pass between Chendebji and Phobjikha)