Nomenclature: wfo-1200001367

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Taxonomy: Synonym in 2025-06

Occurs in: 2022-12 : 2023-06 : 2023-12 : 2024-06 : 2024-12 : 2025-06

Accepted name is: Rhododendron kantoense S.Sakag. & Y.Watan.

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.
• syn: Rhododendron kantoense S.Sakag. & Y.Watan.

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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