Rosa gallica
Rosa gallica
Hokka gülü
Low shrub up to 0,9 m, erect. Prickles small, straight to curved, sparse or sometimes absent, interspersed with glandular acicles or bristles. Leaflets 3 or 5, ovate to suborbieular to elliptic, 1,5-5 x 1,4 cm, obtuse to subacute with rounded base, coriaeeous, uni- or bi-serrate, teeth numerous, rather short, blunt, glabrous and dull, bluish-green above, glabrescent to pubescent and pale grey-green beneath, nerves elevated and distinct beneath; rachis prickly, glabrous to pubescent; stipules rather broad, glandular-serrate, auricles short, ± straight. Flowers solitary or 2-4 together, bracteate, strongly scented. Pedicels 2-6 em, densely glandular-setose. Outer sepals pinnatifid or lobed, lobes glandular-marginate, broadly lanceolate, 1,8-3 cm, apiculate or with a dilated tip, reflexed after anthesis and soon deciduous. Petals 3-4,5 x 2,5-4 cm, emarginate, thick in texture, deep pink. Styles lanate, stigma-head compact, semiglobose, disc conoidal, broad with a wide orifice. Hypanthia globose to ovoid, up to 1,5 cm long, densely glandular-setose, bright red. Fl. 5-6. Dunes, dry meadows, slopes and macchie, often on sand, 30-400 m.
S. & C. Europe, Caucasia, Iraq. Native but also cultivated and naturalized.
