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Rosa multiflora Thunb.

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Rosa multiflora Thunb. (1784)
Rosa multiflora Thunb.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Thunb.
Thunb.
1784
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Rosa multiflora Thunb.
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Rosa multiflora

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multiflora

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Rosa multiflora Thunb.

Scrambling shrub or liane, ± deciduous; stems often long and climbing to c. 6 m high, often intertwining and much-branched, often layering, glabrous; armature 0 or of few to numerous, ± uniform, flattened, falcate prickles. Lvs with 3-4 pairs of leaflets; petiole 15-30-(35) mm long, tomentose and sometimes with glandular hairs; stipules adnate for c. ⅔, usually densely clothed in glandular hairs and moderately to densely puberulent, pectinate with many narrow lobes, sometimes the lobes pinnately divided. Lamina of leaflets 15-50-(60) × 10-30 mm, elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, shining deep green and glabrous above, moderately to densely clothed in eglandular hairs beneath; margins serrate; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute to acuminate or cuspidate. Fls usually numerous in a pyramidal panicle, occasionally few, single, or rarely semi-double with c. 10 petals, 20-25 mm diam.; pedicels and peduncles moderately to densely pilose. Sepals deciduous, lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, tomentose inside and on margins, with very few to many glandular hairs outside and on margins; outer sepals usually pinnately divided with a few narrowly linear lobes. Petals 8-14 mm long, obovate or broadly obovate, white or slightly pink. Styles fused in a column, well-exserted, glabrous. Fr. 6-8 × 4-5 mm, ± ellipsoid, glabrous, shining red or deep orange.

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Rosa multiflora Thunb.
Rosa multiflora Thunb.

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Rosa multiflora Thunb.
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Rosa multiflora Thunb.
China
Rosa multiflora Thunb.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Rosa multiflora Thunb.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Rosa multiflora Thunb.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Rosa multiflora Thunb.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1 January 2000
21 November 2013
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