azaleastrum การใช้
- It is the type species for the subgenus, Azaleastrum.
- In 2005 it was reduced to a section of subgenus " Azaleastrum ".
- Subgenus " Tsutsusi " ( C ) was reduced to section status retaining the name, and included in subgenus " Azaleastrum ".
- Subgenus " Pentanthera " ( deciduous azaleas ) with its four sections was dismembered by eliminating two sections and redistributing the other two between the existing subgenera in clades B ( " Hymenanthes " ) and C ( " Azaleastrum " ), although the name was retained in section " Pentanthera " ( 14 species ) which was moved to subgenus " Hymenanthes ".