Rosaceae Week: Rosa webbiana from Srinagar, Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Rosa webbiana Wall. ex Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mount. 208. t. 42. f. 2. 1839.

Shrub with thin flexuous twigs; yellowish-brown twigs; prickles uniform or mixed with bristles, usually in pairs, straight or or ascending, absent on flowering stems; leaves with  leaflets 5-9, simply or doubly serrulate, 1-2 cm long, elliptic to obovate; flowers solitary or 3-5 in a cluster, 3-5 cm diam., red, pink or white, pedicel often with stalked glands; sepals entire, shorter, persistent; hip oblong-ovoid, 1-2 cm in diam,  ovoid or globose, glabrous, red when mature.

Looking similar to R. macrophylla but with smaller lesser leaflets, shorter calyx tips and shorter ovoid hips without glands.

Photographed from above Cheshmashahi in Srinagar, Kashmir first week of July

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[Balkar Singh]

I think Last member of Rosa

Really nice series on Rosa sp Sir

Thanks for Sharing with  Details

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Dr Balkar Singh
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[Vijayasankar]

Another great series, Gurcharan ji, with beautiful pictures and useful details. Thank you so much.

 

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Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi

[chrischa...@btinternet.com]

This seems to be Rosa nanothamnus.

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Chadwell ji.

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