Rosa henryi Boulenger

Shrubs climbing, 3–8 m, with long repent branches. Branchlets purple-brown, terete, glabrous; prickles scattered, curved, to 3 mm, flat, gradually tapering to a broad base, or prickles absent. Leaves including petiole 9–14 cm; stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate; rachis and petiole glabrous, sparsely shortly prickly; leaflets mostly 5, leaves near corymb often with 3 leaflets, oblong, ovate, elliptic, or elliptic-ovate, 3.5–9 × 1.5–5 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially with prominent midvein, base subrounded or broadly cuneate, margin acutely simply serrate, apex long acuminate or caudate. Flowers 5–15, 3–4 cm in diam., in umbel-like corymb 3–4 cm in diam.; pedicel 1.5–2 cm, glabrous, but shortly glandular-pubescent; bracts caducous, lanceolate. Hypanthium globose, glabrous, but shortly glandular-pubescent. Sepals 5, deciduous, lanceolate, abaxially subglabrous, sparsely glandular punctate, adaxially villous, margin few lobed, apex acuminate. Petals 5, white, fragrant, broadly obovate, abaxially glabrous, base broadly cuneate, apex emarginate. Styles connate into column, exserted, slightly longer than stamens, pubescent. Hip brown-red, subglobose, 8–10 mm in diam., shiny. Fl. Apr–Jul, fr. Jul–Sep.

Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

Forest margins, thickets, scrub, valleys, farmland; 1700--2000 m.

?Rosa henryi var. glandulosa Ze M. Wu & Z. L. Cheng; R. moschata Herrmann var. densa Vilmorin; R. paucispinosa H. L. Li.

Rosa henryi is a rose species native to China. The species is a climbing shrub, 3–8 m, with long repent branches. Prickles are absent or scattered, curved. Leaves are glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent with commonly 5 leaflets. The flowers appear in mid to late summer, 5–15 in an umbel-like corymb, each flower 3–4 cm in diameter, white, and fragrant. The hips are brownish red.

It grows in forest margins, thickets or scrub, valleys or farmland at 1700–2000 m alt.