Rosa pendulina, L.

12. R. pendulina L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 492 (1753) View Cited Treatment

( R. alpina L. ).

Stems up to 2 m; bark green, yellowish-green or occasionally purplish. Prickles usually absent. Leaflets 7-11,20-60 x 10-30 mm, oblongovate to -obovate, biserrate, glabrous or pubescent above, usually sparsely pubescent and sometimes glandular at least on the veins beneath, with glandular teeth. Flowers solitary. Bracts about as long as and enclosing the pedicels, soon deciduous. Pedicels glandular-hispid, recurved in fruit. Petals 15-25 mm, deep purplish-pink. Styles densely hairy. Fruit 15-25 mm, pendent, ovoid to elongate-pyriform, rarely globose, often glandularhispid, red. Mountains o f C. & S. Europe. Al Au Be Bu Cz Ga Ge G r He Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (W). Sect. CAROLiNAE Crépin. Erect, deciduous shrubs. Stems slender, with straight, paired prickles and often acides. Flowers few, in corymbs. Sepals patent and soon deciduous after anthesis. Pedicels and hypanthium glandular-hispid, rarely smooth. Carpels confined to the bottom of the hypanthium.