Subshrub or shrub, deciduous, with \u00b1 erect stems, up to 0.5(1) m in height. Glabrous, reddish, with prickles and numerous bristles (up to 10 per cm of the stem), of different sizes and shapes (generally straight and circular in cross section, but there are also curved and somewhat flattened prickles mixed in). Leaves with 5-11 leaflets (6-15 \u00d7 4.12 mm), from elliptic to oval-elliptic or orbicular, with \u00b1 rounded base or somewhat cuneate, finely serrated margin, slightly coriaceous, glabrous and without glands on the upper side, glandular or not on the underside. Petiole and rachis glabrous, but with glands and small prickles and bristles. Stipules 5-10 mm wide, fused lengthwise to the petiole. Flowers borne solitary, terminal on short lateral branchlets, without bracts (or with very small bracts); pedicels (10-30 mm) with numerous glands or without any. Sepals (8-14 \u00d7 2-4 mm), entire and very rarely with a small lateral lobe, with numerous glands along the margin and on the dorsal side or without any, upright or curved backwards, persistent. Corolla white, but somewhat yellowish at the base of the petals, 30-40 mm in diameter; petals 5, 15-20 mm wide, slightly notched at the apex. Styles free (not fused), pubescent, in the centre of the flower, protruding from the disc of the receptacle. Stamens very numerous, yellow. Fruit (rosehip) a group of numerous achenes enclosed in a receptacle or urceolus, \u00b1 spherical, with or without glands, first green, then red and, after full maturity, black, on which the persistent calyx is borne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12765","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n