目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: 种子16份; DNA材料40份; DNA3份;

• 科:杜鹃花科    Ericaceae
• 属:杜鹃属    Rhododendron
• 种:马缨杜鹃   Rhododendron delavayi

338. Rhododendron delavayi Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 33: 231. 1886. 马缨杜鹃 ma ying du juan Shrubs or trees, 1–7(–12) m tall; bark grayish, exfoliating into thin and small irregular flakes; young shoots stout, white-floccose, glabrescent. Winter buds ovoid, greenish, 6–7 mm, slightly tomentose. Petiole cylindric, 7–20 mm, glabrous; leaf blade leathery, long-lanceolate, 7–15 × 1–5 cm; base tapering; margin revolute; apex obtuse or acute; abaxial surface with indumentum 1-layered, spongy or somewhat agglutinated, whitish to fawn, glabrescent; adaxial surface light or dark green, ± rugose, glabrous at maturity, midrib very prominent abaxially, deeply grooved adaxially; lateral veins 14–20-paired, slightly raised abaxially, impressed adaxially; reticulate veins evident. Inflorescence spherical, umbellate, 10–20-flowered; rachis ca. 10 mm, densely rufous-tomentose. Pedicel stout, 0.8–1 cm, densely fawn-tomentose; calyx lobes 5, ca. 2 mm, triangular; corolla campanulate, fleshy, deep crimson to carmine, 3–5 × 3–4 cm, with 5 basal nectar pouches; lobes 5, ca. 1 × 1.3 cm, apex emarginate; stamens 10, unequal, 1.6–4 cm, filaments glabrous, anthers oblong, 2–2.8 mm; ovary conoid, ca. 8 mm, 10-locular, densely fawn-tomentose; style ca. 2.8 cm, glabrous or floccose to tip, stigma capitate. Capsule oblong, 18–20 × ca. 8 mm, blackish and roughened with the remains of the rusty tomentum. Fl. May, fr. Dec.Mixed forests, evergreen broad-leaved forests, forest margins, thickets, hills, rocky slopes; 1200–3200 m. NW Guangxi, W Guizhou, SW Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Myanmar, Thailand, N Vietnam].Rhododendron delavayi intergrades with R. arboreum in Bhutan and NE India.【引自：Flora of China】

常绿灌木或小乔木，高1-7（-12）米；树皮淡灰褐色，薄片状剥落；幼枝粗壮，被白色绒毛，后变为无毛。顶生冬芽卵圆形，淡绿色，长6-7毫米，多少被白色绒毛。叶革质，长圆状披针形，长7-15厘米，宽1.5-4.5厘米，先端钝尖或急尖，基部楔形，边缘反卷，上面深绿至淡绿色，成长后无毛，下面有白色至灰色或淡褐色海绵状毛被，中脉在上面凹下，下面凸出，近于无毛，侧脉14-20对，在上面凹入，下面稍凸，达于叶缘；叶柄圆柱形，长0.7-2厘米，后变为无毛。顶生伞形花序，圆形，紧密，有花10-20朵；总轴长约1厘米，密被红棕色绒毛；花梗长0.8-1厘米，密被淡褐色绒毛；苞片倒卵形，长2.5厘米，宽1.2厘米，有短尖头，两面均有绢状毛；花萼小，长约2毫米，外面有绒毛和腺体，裂片5，宽三角形；花冠钟形，长3-5厘米，直径3-4厘米，肉质，深红色，内面基部有5枚黑红色蜜腺囊，裂片5，近于圆形，长约1厘米，宽1.3厘米，顶端有缺刻；雄蕊10，不等长，长1.6-4厘米，花丝无毛，花药长圆形，长2-2.8毫米；子房圆锥形，长7毫米，密被红棕色毛，花柱长2.8厘米，无毛，柱头头状。蒴长卜圆柱形，黑褐色，长1.8-2厘米，直径8毫米，10室，有肋纹及毛被残迹。花期5月，果期12月。 【引自：中国植物志】