Entry for ROSA abyssinica Lindley [family ROSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ROSA abyssinicaLindley [family ROSACEAE], (1820). Fig. 184.
Information
Shrub, often climbing; prickles usually curved from a wide base. Leaflets ± 7, ovate to lanceolate, acute at the apex, usually simply serrate, glabrous or hairy on main veins beneath; stipules narrow with short glandular auricles. Flowers few to several arranged in corymbs, or solitary, fragrant. Pedicels 1.5–3.5 cm long, straight, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Sepals ovate and tapering into a long narrow tip, hairy outside, deflexed. Petals 1.2–2.6 cm long, white to pale yellow. Styles united into a protruding column. Receptacle globose to broadly ovoid, 0.7–1.8 cm long, glabrous or ± hairy and with sparse glands, red when ripe.
