瘦柱绒毛杜鹃 shou zhu rong mao du juan

Leaf blade subleathery, oblong-elliptic, 5–8.5 × 1.8–2.7 cm; base cuneate. Style to 4.5 cm. Capsule furrowed, densely tomentose.

Forests; 2100–2200 m. Chongqing.

This variety was wrongly cited in FRPS (57(2): 86. 1994) as var. “tenuistylum.” There is a case for treating it as a subspecies, rather than a variety, as it appears to have a more easterly distribution than var. pachytrichum.