• Scientific Name: Rosa lucieae Franch. & Rochebr. ex Crép.
• Ref: Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 10:324. 1871 (Rosa luciae)
• Synonyms: Rosa ampullicarpa Koidz.; R. calva (Franch. & Sav.) Boulenger; R. kokusanensis Nakai; R. kyushiana Koidz.; R. mokanensis H.Lév.; R. philippinensis Merr.; R. tsusimensis Nakai; R. wichuraiana Crép. ex Déségl.; R. wichurana Crép.
• English Common Name: memorial rose
• Chinese Common Name: 光叶蔷薇 guāngyè qiángwēi, 维屈蔷薇 Wéiqū qiángwēi, 魏氏蔷薇 Wèi-shi qiángwēi
• Japanese Common Name: テリハノイバラ [照葉野ばら/照葉野薔薇] terihanoibara
• Family: Rosaceae
• Genus: Rosa
• Distribution: Thickets, sea cliffs, coasts, on limestone; sea level to 500 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Korea, Philippines]
• Photo: 09/14/2014, Is. Nanji, Zhejiang

Shrubs prostrate, sprawling, or procumbent, 3–5 m. Branches often prostrate, sometimes rooting at nodes; branchlets red-brown, terete, pubescent when young, soon glabrate; prickles scattered, sometimes paired, often tinged with purple-red, curved or nearly straight, to 5 mm, flat, gradually tapering to broad base. Leaves including petiole 5–10 cm; stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, margin glandular serrate or dentate, apex shortly acuminate; rachis and petiole shortly prickly, sparsely glandular-pubescent; leaflets 5–7, rarely 9, greenish abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 1–3 × 0.7–1.5 cm, glabrous, abaxially with prominent midvein, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin remotely serrate, apex rounded-obtuse or acute. Flowers numerous in corymb or solitary, 1.5–3 cm in diam.; pedicel 6–10 mm, with peduncle sparsely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, rarely sparsely glandular-pubescent; bracts caducous, ovate. Hypanthium subglobose, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Sepals 5, tardily deciduous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, abaxially subglabrous, adaxially densely pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate. Petals 5, white or pink, fragrant, obovate, base cuneate, apex rounded-obtuse. Styles connate into column, exserted, slightly longer than stamens, pubescent. Hip purple-black-brown, globose or subglobose, 6–18 mm in diam., shiny, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Fl. Apr–Jul, fr. Oct–Nov. (Flora of China)

09/14/2014, Is. Nanji, Zhejiang