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|accepted_name=Rhododendron prunifolium
|accepted_authority=(Small) Millais
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhododendrons,
|place=230. 1917 ,
}}
|common_names=Plumleaf azalea
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Azalea prunifolia
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. SE. U.S. ed.
|publication_place=2, 1356, 1375. 1913
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae;Rhododendron;Rhododendron prunifolium
|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 prunifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 457, 466
|treatment_page=page 470
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, to 5(–6) m, usually not rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b>: bark smooth to vertically furrowed, shredding; twigs glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole usually multicellular eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy; blade ovate to obovate, 3–11(–15.2) × 1–4(–5) cm, thin, membranous to chartaceous, margins entire, plane, ciliate, eglandular-hairy, apex acute to obtuse, often mucronate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial surface glabrous or, rarely, sparsely scattered eglandular-hairy. <b>Floral</b> bud scales glabrous abaxially, margins unicellular-ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–7-flowered; bracts similar to bud scales. <b>Pedicels</b> 5–12 mm, eglandular-hairy. <b>Flowers</b> opening after development of leaves, erect to horizontal, not fragrant; calyx lobes 1–3(–4) mm, glabrous or sparsely unicellular-hairy, margins eglandular-hairy; corolla red to orange-red or orange, with indistinct darker blotch on upper lobe, funnelform, 36–53 mm, glabrous or very sparsely long stipitate-glandular-hairy, sometimes also sparsely unicellular-hairy on outer surface, petals connate, lobes 11–22 mm, tube abruptly expanded into lobes, 23–35 mm (± equaling or much longer than lobes); stamens 5, much exserted, ± unequal, 64–84 mm. <b>Capsules</b> borne on erect pedicels, 15–22 × 4.5–7 mm, densely, stiffly eglandular-hairy and sparsely 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 summer.
|habitat=Shady forests, especially ravines along streams
|elevation=30-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Rhododendron prunifolium</i> is most closely related to <i>R. flammeum</i>, <i>R. cumberlandense</i>, and <i>R. calendulaceum</i>, and can be distinguished from all of those orange- to red-flowered species by its nearly glabrous and more gradually expanded corolla tube and by the indistinct nature of the floral blotch (K. A. Kron 1993). This species is federally protected.</p>
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name=Rhododendron prunifolium
|authority=(Small) Millais
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Azalea prunifolia
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Shady forests, especially ravines along streams
|elevation=30-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhododendrons,
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae
|genus=Rhododendron
|species=Rhododendron prunifolium
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