Rosa caryophyllacea

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

43. R. caryophyllacea Besser,

Cat. PI. Jard. Krzemien. Suppl. 4: 18 (1815).

Up to 1 m. Prickles stout, broad, curved, often paired, nearly straight, mixed with setae on the flowering shoots. Leaflets 5-7, 10-30 x 10-20 mm, ovate to elliptical, compound-serrate, usually densely glandular on both surfaces, glabrous to pubescent. Pedicels glabrous. Sepals glandular or eglandular, deflexed after anthesis and tardily deciduous. Petals 12-20 mm, pale pink. Styles lanate. Fruit c. 10 mm, subglobose to ellipsoid, glabrous, bright red. E.C. Europe, Balkan peninsula, Ukraine. Au Bu Cz Gr Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W).