• Scientific Name: Rhododendron huadingense B.Y.Ding & Y.Y.Fang
• Ref: Taxon 54:804. 2005
• English Common Name: Huading rhododendron
• Chinese Common Name: 华顶杜鹃 Huádǐng dùjuān
• Family: Ericaceae
• Genus: Rhododendron
• Distribution: 700–1000 m. Zhejiang.
• Note: name for Huading, Mt. Tiantai
• Photo: 04/13/2013, Mt. Siming, Zhejiang

Shrubs, 1–4 m; branches of present year glabrous. Petiole ca. 10 mm, strigose and pubescent; leaf blade papery, ovate, ovate-elliptic, or elliptic, 6–10 × 3–6 cm; base broadly cuneate to rounded; margin serrulate, stoutly ciliate; apex acute; both surfaces yellowish pubescent, glabrescent; abaxial surface with lateral veins gray-tomentose; midrib impressed adaxially; lateral veins 10–12-paired. Inflorescence 2–4-flowered. Pedicel 1–2 cm, densely glandular-hairy; calyx small, glandular-hairy; corolla funnelform, pale purple or purplish red, upper lobes with purple spots at base, 4.5–5 cm, lobes 5, elliptic, 3–3.5 cm; stamens 10, 3–4.5 cm, glabrous; ovary ovoid, glabrous; style as long as corolla. Capsule ovoid, ca. 10 × 8 mm, glabrous. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep. (Flora of China)