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Rhododendron sect. Sciadorhodion

section of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ25197420 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rhododendron sect. Sciadorhodion is a subsection of subgenus Azaleastrum in the genus Rhododendron. It comprises 16 species of deciduous shrubs native to East Asia and North America.

Taxonomy

Plants were previously classified in the genus Menziesia and reclassified within the genus Rhododendron and formally transferred in 2011.

Species

References

Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.

Cox, Kenneth (2016). "Rhododendrons formerly known as Menziesia". The Plantsman.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rhododendron sect. Sciadorhodion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.