Rosa sicula, Tratt

I. Klášterský, 1968, 10. Rosa L., Flora Europaea, Volume 2, Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press, pp. 35-42 : 32

44. R. sicula Tratt .,

Rosac. Monogr. 2: 86 (1823) ( R. thuretii (Burnat & Gremli) Burnat & Gremli).

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. A1 Ga Gr Hs It ?Ju Si.