ROSA DUMALIS

Family and Genus:- See- ROSACEAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Rosa caesia, Rosa gluaca,

Meaning:- Rosa (L) Latin name for various roses.

Dumalis (L) Thorny, compact, bushy.

General description:- Deciduous.

Stems:-

1) Up to 3 m, erect bluish-green, pruinose when young, becoming brown.

Prickles:-

1) Stout, curved or hooked.

Leaves:-

1) Leaflets, 5-9, 20-45 x 15-25 mm, elliptical to ovate, serrate, glabrous, bluish-

green or purplish.

Flowers:-

1) 1-5.

2) Pedicels, glabrous, very rarely with stalked glands.

3) Sepals, 2-3 mm wide, sometimes almost entire but usually with a few linear

lobes, glabrous.

4) Petals, 18-22 mm, narrow, deep pink. Disc flat. Styles white-lanate.

Fruit:-

1) c. 15 mm, globose, usually glabrous, brownish-red.

Key features:-

1) Hypanthium, glabrous.

2) Pedicels, rarely sparsely stipitate-glandular.

3) Sepals, 2-3 mm wide.

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Habitat:- Meadows, gorges and open woodland, sometimes forming thickets. (500-)

800-1800 m.

Distribution:- Scattered on mainland Greece. - Most of Europe and C Asia. Rare

on Crete known only from the Lefka Ori and Psiloritis mountains.

Flowering time:- May-June.

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