Rosa sicula, Tratt.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 32

44. R. sicula Tratt. , Rosac. Monogr. 2: 86 (1823)

( R. thuretii (Burnat & Gremii) Burnat & Gremii ).

Up to 0-5 m. Prickles usually sparse, slender, more or less curved, sometimes mixed with acicles and glandular setae. Leaflets 5-7, 7-15 x 5-15 mm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, compound-serrate, usually glabrous and sparsely glandular above, densely glandular and glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath. Pedicels 3-5 mm, often stipitate-glandular, sometimes sparsely pubescent. Sepals glandular on the back, patent or erect after anthesis. Petals 10-15 mm, pink. Styles villous to lanate. Fruit c. 10 mm, globose, usually sparsely stipitate-glandular, red. Mediterranean region. Al Ga G r Hs It?Ju Si.