棕背杜鹃（学名：Rhododendron alutaceum）为杜鹃花科杜鹃属下的一个变种。

Rhododendron alutaceum is a rhododendron species native to ***** and southwestern China (western Sichuan, southeastern ******, and northwestern Yunnan), where it grows at altitudes of 3200–4300 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 1.5–4 m in height, with thick, leatherly leaves that are oblong and broadly lanceolate to lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5–14 by 1.5–3.5 cm in size. Flowers are white to pink, with crimson spots and purplish-red basal blotch.