Rosa luciae

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Rosa luciae

Description

Suberect to straggling or ± climbing shrubs, up to 4 m. Leaves 4-10 (-12) cm long, free part of petiole up to 1(-1.5) cm long. Stipules adnate over (3.5—)8—11 mm, wings 0.7-1.5 mm wide, free tips 1-2.5 mm long, margin dentate and with stalked glands. Flowers 7-30 or more in a terminal raceme or thyrse, the lower flowers or partial inflorescences in the axils of small leaves. Sepals reflexed during and after anthesis, caducous, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, (6.5-)8-ll by 2.5-4 mm including acumen of up to 4 mm, 1-2 side-lobes on expose! margins, glandular and sparsely hairy outside. Petals (broadly) obovate, 11-18 by 9-11 mm, refuse, white. Stamens 100 or more, filaments up to 7 mm, anthers up to 1.5 mm long.

Distribution

Asia-Temperate: Korea present; Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), E China present, Japan present, Luzon present, Mountain Prov present, Ryukyu Is present
Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Is., E China, Taiwan; in Malesia: Philippines (Luzon: several places in the Mountain Prov.).

Notes

The description given only pertains to the specimens from Luzon and does not reflect the existing variation in the entire area.

Citation

Kalkman 1973: p. 284. – In: Blumea. f. 2
Steenis 1934 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg. p 243
Crepin 1887: p. 189. – In: Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. descr.