Rosa luciae
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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.).