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Article (magazine)  (Sep 1959)  Page(s) 210.  
 
7. Rosa sericea Lindl. and R. omeiensis Rolfe Hurst's hybridizations and living material now in the National Rose Species Collection...suggest that these two are best united as a single species under the older name R. sericea Lindl. Parallel variations, like the pteracantha prickle form, occur in both, and all combinations of leaflet number, dentition, pedicel form and so forth. A key follows to the better subdivision:
Fruit Red:
Plant unarmed........var. denudata
Magazine  (1893)  Page(s) 105-106.  
 
Cette variabilité du Rosa sericea a été aussi très bien constatée par M. Franchet, qui, dans l'herbier du Muséum, classant les nombreux échantillons chinois de cette espèce, les a répartis en trois variétés nommées pteracantha, glabrescens et denudata. ....Quant aux variétés glabrescens et denudata, elles ont, comme caractères communs, des feuilles glabres et l'absence d'aiguillons aciculaires sur la tige et ses ramifications;....La dénomination denudata donnée par M. Franchet à sa troisième variété du Rosa sericea semble indiquer que les arbustes qui la constituent sont privés non seulement de toute villosité, mais encore de toute armature. Au premier coup d'oeil jeté sur les six spécimens spontanés pour lesquels elle a été établie, il semble bien qu'il en soit ainsi; toutefois, en examinant avec attention ces mêmes spécimens, on voit des aiguillons laminaires en plus ou moin grand nombre sur chacun.
Book  (1890)  Page(s) 220.  
 
Rosa sericea
Forma denudata. — Foliola majuscula, subtus etiam in nervo medio glaberrima; receptaculum glabrum. 

Yun-nan, in silvis ad Yu-kia-ngan, supra Houang-kia-pin ; fl. 3 jul.  1888 (Delavay, n. 3303). 
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