Spreading or climbing shrub with brown-hairy growth. Prickles large, paired and with many bristles. Leaflets 5-11, to 5 cm long, obovate to elliptic, glossy above, downy below, at least on the midrib, margin teeth fine and simple; stipules united at the base, fringed. Flowers mostly solitary, single, 5-8 cm wide, white; summer to autumn. Styles free, not protruding. Fruit more or less spherical, to about 3.5 cm wide, hairy.

Taiwan, SE China. Occasionally naturalised in Qld and NSW.

Source: Adamson, S.; Bell, R.; Heathcote, R.; Hannemann, D.; Hannemann, F.; Huxley, I.; Newesteeg, J.; Spencer, R.; Sutherland, P. (2002). Rosa. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.