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|accepted_name=Rhododendron austrinum
|accepted_authority=(Small) Rehder
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in L. H. Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort.
|place=6: 3571. 1917 ,
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|common_names=Florida azalea
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Azalea austrina
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. S.E. U.S. ed.
|publication_place=2, 1356. 1913
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae;Rhododendron;Rhododendron austrinum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhododendron]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhododendron austrinum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 458, 467, 469
|treatment_page=page 466
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, to 3(–5) m, usually not rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b>: bark smooth to vertically furrowed, shredding; twigs conspicuously multicellular stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise ± moderately to densely unicellular-hairy. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole multicellular stipitate-glandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy; blade ovate to obovate, 3–11 × 1.5–4.5 cm, thin, membranous, margins entire, plane, ciliate, eglandular- and stipitate-glandular-hairy, apex acute to obtuse, often mucronate, abaxial surface ± moderately unicellular-hairy, adaxial surface sparsely scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise ± moderately unicellular-hairy, rarely glabrescent. <b>Floral</b> bud scales densely to moderately unicellular-hairy abaxially, margins unicellular-ciliate, also partly glandular-serrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 9–24-flowered; bracts similar to bud scales. <b>Pedicels</b> 5–17 mm, stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise ± densely unicellular-hairy. <b>Flowers</b> opening before or with leaves, erect to horizontal, slightly or not fragrant; calyx lobes 0.5–2.5 mm, scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise unicellular-hairy, margins long stipitate-glandular-hairy; corolla yellow to orange, with usually red or orange-red tube, with indistinct, darker yellow, orange, or red blotch on upper lobe, funnelform, 25–45 mm, scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise ± moderately unicellular-hairy on outer surface, petals connate, lobes 9–20 mm, tube ± gradually expanded into lobes, 15–25 mm (longer than lobes); stamens 5, much exserted, ± unequal, 52–77 mm. <b>Capsules</b> borne on erect pedicels, 14–26 × 3–5.5 mm, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise moderately to densely unicellular-hairy. <b>Seeds</b> without distinct tails, flattened portion of testa well developed at each end; testa expanded, dorsiventrally flattened, ± loose. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Wooded slopes, bluffs or lowlands along streams
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.
|discussion=<p><i>Rhododendron austrinum</i> is most closely related to R. luteum Sweet of eastern Europe, Turkey, and the Caucasus region and to <i>R. occidentale</i> (K. A. Kron 1993).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhododendron austrinum
|authority=(Small) Rehder
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Azalea austrina
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Wooded slopes, bluffs or lowlands along streams
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.
|reference=None
|publication title=in L. H. Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort.
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae
|genus=Rhododendron
|species=Rhododendron austrinum
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