Nomenclature: wfo-1000078468

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Taxonomy: Accepted in 2025-06 classification

Occurs in: 2025-06

Placement: Code > Plantae Haeckel > Pteridobiotina Britton & Brown > Angiosperms > Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl > Ericaceae Juss. > Ericoideae Link > Rhododendron L. > Rhododendron subg. Rhododendron L. > Rhododendron sect. Rhododendron > Rhododendron subsect. Triflora (Hutch.) Sleumer > Rhododendron kantoense S.Sakag. & Y.Watan.

Synonyms

• Rhododendron subnikomontanum Suto & T.Suzuki
• Rhododendron keiskei var. hypoglaucum Suto & T.Suzuki

Taxonomic References

• literature : Sakaguchi, S., Choi, H., Yoichi, W., Takahashi, D., Hirota, S. K., Maki, M., Murakami, S., Harada, T., Kobayashi, N., Kurashige, Y., Song, J., Choi, H., & Kim, S. (2024). Unraveling enigmatic disjunctions: Population genetic analysis points to independent origins of rare rhododendrons in the Rhododendron keiskei complex (Ericaceae). In TAXON (Vol. 74, Issue 1, pp. 117–132). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13288

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