Rosa villosa, L.

I. Klášterský, 1968, 10. Rosa L., Flora Europaea, Volume 2, Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press, pp. 35-42 : 31

35. R. villosa L. ,

Sp. PL 491 (1753) ( R. pomifera J. Herrmann). Compact shrub up to 1-5 m.

Stems with short internodes, not pruinose. Prickles slender, long, straight, somewhat inflated at the base, scarcely decurrent. Leaflets 5-7, 30-50(-60) x 16-30 mm, oblong-ovate to broadly elliptical, biserrate, pubescent to tomen-tose on both surfaces, often densely glandular beneath, conspicuously bluish-green, with a resinous smell; teeth glandular. Pedicels 5-10(-15) mm, about as long as the fruit, stipitate- or setose-glandular. Sepals erect and persistent after anthesis. Petals 20-25 mm, pink. Disc narrow. Styles lanate. Fruit 1020 mm, globose to pyriform, densely stipitate-glandular, dull red. C. & S. Europe, extending northwards to the Netherlands. A1 Au Bu Ga Ge Gr He Ho Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W) [Cz Da No Rs (B) Su],