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The Wild Flowers of Mountain Temperate Forest Region

R. lepidotum Evergreen little shrub.0.5 to 1m tall. Leaves obovate, lanceolate or obovate ellipitc. 1 to 3 terminal flowers, purple, red, pink to reddish white, rarely yellow. Flowering: July to Aug. Heliophilous, from south to southeast Tibet, 2700 to 3700 m, thickets on slopes or forestedges. Northwest Yunnan, west Sichuan, south Asia.