Rosa phoenicia
Rosa phoenicia
Fenike gülü
Tall shrub, 3-5 m, with climbing branches. Prickles rather stout, 0,3-0,6 cm, hooked, with a broad dilated base, ± uniform. Leaves deciduous, papery; leaflets 5, oval to broadly oval, 2-4,5 x 1,5-2,7 cm, obtuse to subacute with rounded base, uni- or bi-serrate, teeth usually 10-17 on each side, distinct and broad, sparsely pubescent and dull green above, densely pubescent and pale greyish-green beneath; rachis pubescent, prickly; stipules with short acuminate auricles, glandular serrulate. Flowers in a dense corymb, usually 10-20 together, bracteate, bracts usually distinctly serrulate and hairy. Pedicels 1-3,5 cm, sparsely pubescent and glandular-hispid. Outer sepals pinnatifid, 1,3-2 cm, with a dilated tip, lobes broad, with a short, narrowly attenuate base, usually pubescent and glandular on the back, reflexed after anthesis and soon deciduous. Petals 1,4-2,1 x1,2-1,5 cm, white, often faintly pink at base. Styles connate in a glabrescent column up to 0,6 cm; disc ± flat, broad, with a narrow orifice. Hypopithia 1-1,2 cm, ovoid, usually smooth, red. Fl. 5-6. Scrub and hedges in moist places, 30-1100 m.
N.E. Greece, Latakia, Lebanon, Cyprus. B. Medit. element.
