Rosa shangchengensis T. C. Ku

One of us (Robertson) has seen no specimens of this species.

Shrubs. Branchlets red-brown, terete, often curved, glabrous; prickles subulate, straight. Leaves including petiole 4–5.5 cm; stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, margin entire, sometimes glandular serrate, apex acuminate; rachis and petiole glabrous, with sparse, short, curved prickles; leaflets usually 7, obovate or oblong, 1–2 × 0.5–1.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, margin serrate, apex acute or truncate. Flowers 2 or 3 and fasciculate, ca. 2.8 cm in diam.; pedicel 2–2.5 cm, densely stipitate glandular, bracts caducous. Hypanthium obovoid-oblong, abaxially densely stipitate glandular. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.3 cm, abaxially densely stipitate glandular, adaxially densely yellow-white pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate. Petals 5, white, long obovate, base cuneate, apex rounded. Styles connate in column, exserted, nearly equaling or slightly shorter than stamens, pubescent. Hip unknown.

SE Henan (Shangcheng Xian).