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Rosa woodsii Lindley subsp. manca (Greene) W. H. Lewis & Ertter, Novon. 17: 351. 2007.
Mancos rose
Rosa manca Greene, Pittonia 4: 11. 1899
Description...
Subspecies manca [2x (DNA)] is the high-elevation representative of Rosa woodsii in the southern Rocky Mountains and outlying peaks and ridges of the Colorado Plateau, particularly characteristic of Gambel oak woodlands. Plants are relatively short and tend to have curved prickles, obovate leaflets, and stipitate-glandular sepals. As so circumscribed, this is not the R. manca of E. W. Erlanson (1934), which was regarded as a hexaploid (2n = 42) ecotype of R. nutkana. Neither is it the R. manca of A. Cronquist and N. H. Holmgren (1997), which represented a mixture of subsp. manca and R. nutkana, probably subsp. melina.
 

Article (magazine)  (10 Sep 2007)  Page(s) 351.  
 
Rosa woodsii Lindley subsp. manca (Greene) W.H. Lewis & Ertter, comb. et stat. nov. Basionym: Rosa manca Greene, Pittonia 4:11. 1899....It is not the R. manca sensu Erlanson (1934:230) which is described as a hexaploid ecotype species of R. nutkana (= subsp. melina).

Article (magazine)  (10 Sep 2007)  Page(s) 346.  
 
Rosa woodsii Lindley, Ros. Monogr. 21. 1820....
Key to the subspecies of Rosa woodsii in Central and Western North America:
- Shrubs most frequently short, typically less than 1 m, infrequently to 2 m; fertile branches densely prickly of various sizes, rarely few or unarmed; terminal leaflets obovate, fewer ovate or elliptic; flowers 1 to 3, rarely more; prairies and plains of central North America extending into the Rocky Mtns. and nearby Southwest.
-- Prickles curved, rarely straight; sepals commonly stipitate-glandular on outer surfaces or margins; endemic to high elevations of Rocky Mtns. and outlying peaks and ridges....subsp. manca

Book  (Sep 2007)  Page(s) 351.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa woodsii Lindley subsp. manca (Greene) W.H. Lewis & Ertter
Rosa woodsii subsp. manca occurs in the high mountains of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming (rare) at elevations ca. 2350-3300+ m within the Southern Rocky Mountain - Mogollon Floristic Element in North America. It is not the R. manca sensu Erlanson, which is described as a hexaploid ecotype species of R. nutkana (=subsp. melina).

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Rosa manca (Greene). Lilac-pink.

Article (magazine)  (1899)  Page(s) 11.  
 
R. manca Dwarf subalpine shrub, sometimes a foot high or more, rather freely branching, the glabrous and smooth red stem and branches armed with few and stoutish compressed and very strongly recurved prickles. Leaves small, the leaflets about 7,from somewhat obovate to elliptic, thin, sharply but not deeply serrate, the serratures callous-tipped and the larged with one secondary tooth, all smooth and glabrous on bothy faces. Stipules extremely narrow, glandular, the long and narrow though prominent auricles more herbaceous. Flowers solitary at the ends of the short leafy branchlets. Receptacle and back of sepals glabrous and glaucescent. Sepals finely woolly margined and with notable scattered sessile black glands among the wool...
Collected by Messrs Baker, Earle and Tracy, on dry hillsides at about 10,000 feet altitued in West Mancos Cañon, southern Colorado, July 1898, and distributed fro R. Arkansana. The name assigned this excellent new rose is taken from the geographical name Mancos, which is Spanish and also Latin for "the cripples."