• Scientific Name: Rhododendron moulmainense J. D. Hooker
• Ref: Bot. Mag. 82: t. 4904. 1856.
• English Common Name: Westland’s Rhododendron
• Chinese Common Name: 毛棉杜鹃 Máomián dùjuān
• Family: Ericaceae
• Genus: Rhododendron
• Subgenus: R. subg. Choniastrum
• Distribution: Open forests, thickets; 700–1500 m. S Yunnan [NE India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand].

Shrubs or small trees, 3–15 m tall; bark gray-brown, not peeling. Petioles stout, 10–15 mm, glabrous; leaf blade leathery, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 5–12 × 2.5–5 cm; base cuneate or broadly cuneate; margin revolute; apex acuminate to acute; both surfaces glabrous; lateral veins not reaching margin. Inflorescence subapical, 2- or 3-flowered. Pedicel 1–2 cm, glabrous; calyx lobes 5, shallowly undulate, small, glabrous; corolla narrowly funnelform, white, with a yellow blotch within, 4.3–5.5 cm, tube 15–20 × 3–4 mm in diam., lobes deeply divided, spreading, oblong-obovate, apex entire and rounded; stamens 10, unequal, 3.5–4 cm, slightly shorter than corolla, filaments flat, with silvery-white scurfy pubescence below middle; ovary long-cylindric, tapering into style, 5–10 mm, dark brown, glabrous; style ca. 5 cm, often shorter than corolla, slightly longer than stamens, glabrous. Capsule cylindric, apex acuminate, 35–60 × 4–6 mm; style persistent. Fl. Mar–Apr, fr. Jul–Dec. (Flora of China)