Magazine  (2016)  Page(s) Table S2.  
 
rosa reversa, Origin of the sample: Loubert Rose Garden, Genetic group 12, Percentage of assignation: 95.4, 1820, Misc OGR, Unknown, Origin: Europe S, Ploidy: 3, measured

Article (website)  (13 Aug 2007)  
 
R. × reversa Waldst. et Kit. = R. pendulina L. × R. spinosissima L. = R. malyi Kern. = R. rubella Sm.– southern Europe since 1802

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 168.  
 
location 146/5, R. x reversa Waldst. & Kit. (R. pendulina x R. pimpinellifolia), PIMPINELLIFOLIAE, southern France, southeast Europe, Switzerland, 1820, reddish-cream white, single, mild fragrance, medium size, solitary, vigorous, bushy, upright, 1-2 m, many bristles, dark green small matte foliage, 9-11 leaflets, dark red rounded-ovoid large glossy fruit, upright very persistent sepals, many hips

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 16.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa x reversa Waldst. & Kit. This hybrid between R. pimpinellifolia and R. pendulina is known in the wild and combines the characteristics of the parents. It makes a bush up to 1.5 m high, with white or pink flowers, and usually dark purple pendulous fruits.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 77.  
 
reversa Waldst. & Kitt. (spinosissima x pendulina)

Book  (1917)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Mr. H. R. Darlington.  Some Early-Flowering Species of Roses.
Intermediate between this [spinosissima] section and the alpines is a very interesting little plant R. rubella.......
Some years ago I received a very beautiful form of this rose from Mr Mawley.  The flowers are rose-coloured and foliage is particularly attractive, even bearing a slight resemblance to that of R.macrophylla........

Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 69.  
 
ROSA reversa.

Book  (1826)  Page(s) 716.  
 
Rosa tomentosa ... Variété Mollis : appelée aussi, mais mal à propos, R. reversa, de Willdenow.

Book  (1825)  Page(s) 46-47, t.38.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa reversa...Species characteristics: Five sepals, bloom has five petals, many achenes, with short hairs, enclosed in an urn-shaped felshy ovary with shot hairs inside, surmounted by the sepals.
Pimpinellifoliae: Hispid, with dense, almost equal prickles or without prickles, without stipules (very seldom with); leaflets ovoid or elongated; the sepals reflexed inwards, persistent; the edge of the ovary barely noticeable.
Characteristics: Bristly prickles, almost equal, curved backwards, dilated. Leaflets doubly serrated, with soft hair. Fruit hispid.
Rückwärtsstachlige Rose ([Reverse-prickled Rose]
Rosa reversa. Waldstein et Kitaib. Willd. Enum. p. 545. Linley [sic] Rosar. monograph. p. 57. Hayne dendrolog. Flor. p. 93.
Fatherland: Hungary.
Soil: Common garden soil.
Blooms and fruit: Blooms June and August, fruits ripe in October.
Sowing: In autumn; the propagation is by root scions and offshoots.
Height: Grows to a small shrub of two to three feet, when cultivated a shrub of five to six feet.
Use: As with any beautiful rose.
 

Book  (1820)  Page(s) 57-58.  
 
36. ROSA reversa.

R. armis setaceis subæqualibus reflexis, foliolis duplicato-serratis pubescentibus, fructu hispido.
R. reversa Waldst. & Kitaib. hung. 3. 293. t. 264.
Hab. locis saxosis montium Matræ, (W. & K.)

A shrub in its wild state two or three, in a cultivated five feet high and more. Stems much branched, on their lower half covered with weak, brown, equal, deflexed prickles (setæ?) Leaves pale, yellow green; petioles furnished with setæ; leaflets ovate, acute, finely and doubly serrated, naked above, downy beneath: the middle nerve is glandular. Flowers solitary, white tinged with pink; stalks and calyx hispid; tube ovate; sepals nearly entire; petals emarginate concave. Fruit ovate, dark purple, hispid, crowned by the sepals. W. & K.
This was discovered in Hungary by Waldstein and Kitaibel, who published a good figure of it in their fine work on the rare plants of that country. It seems, as far as can be ascertained from their account of it, to be related to R. spinosissima on the one hand and to involuta on the other. From the former its doubly serrated leaves and hispid fruit distinguish it, from the latter its equal small prickles and black fruit. The figure indicates a tendency of the petals to become involute; but I know not whether it can be depended upon in such a case.
Among the plants of Sievers from Pallas now in the possession of Mr. Lambert are specimens of a Rose from Davuria marked R. davurica ; but probably by accident, as they in no way answer to the description of that plant in Flora Rossica. If they be not of a distinct species, they must be referred to this, from which they chiefly differ in the colour of their fruit, which is not black, but red and smooth, in an unripe state.