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Rosa stylosa Desv.

Spa.: Rosa de estilos grandes.  Fre.: Rose à longs styles.

Shrub, deciduous, monoecious, with ± erect stems, up to 2 m in height; glabrous stems, green, rarely reddish, with prickles slender and sometimes curved, with oval base. Leaves are imparipinnate, with 5-7 leaflets (2.5-3 x 1.7-2.2 cm) ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, with rounded base, doubly serrated margin, not coriaceous, glabrous except on the central vein, where it is somewhat hairy, and without glands, although sometimes they may have some spaced glands. Petiole and rachis glabrous, although the insertion areas of the leaflets can sometimes be hairy. Stipules varied from 1.3-3×0.6-1, 2 cm. Hermaphrodite flowers, 3-5 in cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, with 1-2 bracts shorter than pedicels; pedicels 0.9-1.9 cm, glabrous, although occasionally they may have glands. Sepals (1.8-2.2 x 3.5-4 cm), ovate-lanceolate, glabrous or hairy on the back, not glandular, reflexes, deciduous; the external ones with 3-6(8) unequal lateral lobes and the internal ones entire. Corolla 2.5-4 cm in diameter; petals 5, 1.2-22 mm wide, notched at the apex, white or pale pink. Styles fused into a column less than 0.5 mm, although sometimes (in the maturation of the urnule) they can be free. Stamens very numerous, yellow. The fruit is a set of numerous achenes enclosed in a receptacle or urnule, ovoid or urceolate, red and smooth (1.1-1.6 x 1-1.2 cm in diameter).