=H. 'Shellys' (AHS registration)=H. 'Shelly's' (AHS judges handbook).
Plant reportedly collected in Japan by the late British plantsman Elliot Hodgkin an named by Brickell for his garden.
H. kikutii form or hybrid? Flowers typical H. kikutii.
Has been distributed under the invalid name H. kikutii 'Kifukurin'.