Rosa rubus H. Lév. & Vaniot

Two forms may be recognized: f. rubus, which has leaflets abaxially eglandular, and f. glandulifera T. T. Yü & T. C. Ku (Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 1(2): 15. 1981), which has leaflets abaxially densely glandular.

Shrubs creeping or scandent, or vines to 5–6 m. Branchlets terete, pubescent when young, glabrate when old; prickles scattered, curved, to 2 mm, stout, flat, gradually tapering to broader base. Leaves including petiole 8–15 cm; stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, pubescent, margin entire, often glandular, apex acuminate; rachis and petiole pubescent, with sparse small hooked prickles; leaflets 5 or 3, ovate-elliptic, obovate, or elliptic, 3–6(–9) × 2–4.5 cm, abaxially densely or sparsely pubescent or glandular, adaxially usually glabrous, rarely pubescent, base subrounded or broadly cuneate, margin acutely serrate, apex caudate, acute, or acuminate. Flowers 10–25 in a paniculate corymb, 2.5–3 cm in diam.; peduncle with pedicels 1.5–2 cm, pubescent and glandular-pubescent; bracts narrowly ovate, small, margin glandular, apex acuminate. Hypanthium globose or obovoid, pubescent and sparsely glandular-pubescent. Sepals 5, deciduous, lanceolate, both surfaces densely pubescent, abaxially glandular-pubescent, margin entire or with a few small lobes, apex long acuminate. Petals 5, white, fragrant, obovate, base broadly cuneate, apex emarginate. Styles connate into column, exserted, slightly longer than stamens, pubescent. Hip bright-red, purple-brown, or orange brown, subglobose, 8–10 mm in diam., shiny, mostly glabrous. Fl. Apr–Jun, fr. Jul–Sep.

Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

Scrub, grassy places, slopes, montane regions, cliffs, river banks, roadsides; 500--1300 m.

Rosa ernestii Stapf ex Bean; R. gentiliana H. Léveillé & Vaniot f. puberula Handel-Mazzetti; R. henryi Boulenger var. puberula (Handel-Mazzetti) Metcalf; R. moschata Herrmann var. hupehensis Pampanin; R. rubus var. yunnanensis H. Léveillé.