SPECIES DESCRIPTION
ROSA PULVERULENTA
Family and Genus:- See- ROSACEAE/Sect. CANINAE/R. RUBIGINOSA Group
Common Names:- Glandular rose
Homotypic Synonyms:- Rosa glutinosa
Meaning:- Rosa (L) Latin name for various roses.
Pulverulenta (L) Covered with powder, powdery, full of dust.
General description:- Much-branched shrublet, usually with suckers.
Stems:-
1) 15-50(-100) cm tall.
Prickles:-
1) Straight to hooked, usually mixed with bristles, acicles and stalked glands.
Leaves:-
1) Leaflets, small to medium-sized, 5-7, 7-15 x 5-15 mm, suborbicular to broadly
aromatic; margin with rather broad, glandular teeth.obovate, usually pubescent
on both sides, densely glandular at least beneath.
Flowers:-
1) Solitary or in few-flowered corymbs.
2) Pedicels, 3-5 mm, often stipitate-glandular, sometimes sparsely pubescent.
3) Sepals, usually lobed, glandular on the back, patent or erect after anthesis,
suberect and persistent in fruit.
4) Petals, 12-22 mm, pink or white.
5) Hypanthium, ovoid or subglobose, usually glandular-stipitate, red when mature;
6) Styles, densely pubescent, forming a compact head.
Fruit:-
1) c. 10 mm, globose, usually sparsely stipitate-glandular, red.
Key features:-
1) Prickles, usually stout, mixed with glandular setae and acicles.
2) Leaflets, 7-15 x 5-15 mm, usually pubescent and glandular on the upper surface.
3) Styles, lanate.
Habitat:- Rocky slopes with dry meadows and open woodland. (200-)800-2100) m.
on various substrates.
Distribution:- Mountains of mainland Greece from Taigetos and Parnonas to the N
borders at low altitude in the NE. - Widespread in the Mediterranean reagion and
SW Asia. Rare on Crete known only from the Lefka Ori and Psiloritis mountains.
Flowering time:- May-July.
Photos by:- Courtesy of Wiki-Commons
