异名：Rhododendron eudoxum Balf. f. et Forrest subsp. glaphyrum (I. B. Balfour et Forrest) Tagg (synonym)、Rhododendron glaphyrum Balf. f. et Forrest (synonym)、Rhododendron glaphyrum Balf. f. et Forrest var. dealbatum (Cowan) Davidian (synonym)、Rhododendron temenium Balf. f. et Forrest subsp. dealbatum Cowan (synonym)、Rhododendron temenium Balf. f. et Forrest subsp. glaphyrum (I. B. Balfour et Forrest) Cowan (synonym)

Rhododendron temenium Balf. f. et Forrest var. dealbatum (Cowan) Chamb. ex Cullen et Chamb. in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 37: 334. 1979; Chamb. in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 39: 405. 1982; 西藏植物志3: 588. 1986; 云南植物志4: 439. 1986.——R. glaphyrum Balf. f. et Forrest in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 13: 45. 1920.——R. eudoxum Balf. f. et Forrest subsp. glaphyrum (Balf. f. et Forrest) Tagg in Stevenson, Spec. Rhodod. 549. 1930.——R. temenium Balf. f. et Forrest subsp. dealbatum Cowan in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 20: 83. 1940.——R. temenium Balf. f. et Forrest subsp. glaphyrum (Balf. f. et Forrest) Cowan in ibid. 20: 82. 1940.

本变种与原变种的区别在于幼枝和花梗有细弱的刚毛或无刚毛，花序有花2-4朵，疏松；花冠白色至蔷薇红色。

产云南西北部和西藏东南部。生于海拔3 600-4 260米的石坡灌丛或沼泽中。模式标本采自西藏东南部察隅。