Shrub to 2 m or so tall. Prickles narrow, unequal, straight or hooked and combined with bristles. Leaflets mostly 3-5, roundish, hairless above, hairy below, at least on the veins, teeth compound. Flowers 1 or few in a cluster, pink to crimson, fragrant; summer. Styles free, not protruding. Fruit 1-1.5 cm wide, roundish, red, densely bristly.

R. × macrantha hort. of garden origin is a hybrid between R. gallica and ?R. canina and a sprawling shrub to about 2 m tall. Prickles few, straight or hooked and with bristles. Leaflets 3-5, more or less ovate, hairless but glandular below, teeth simple or compound. Flowers few in a cluster, single to semi-double, to about 7 cm wide, fragrant, pale pink, fading to white; summer. Styles free, hardly protruding. Fruit 1-1.5 cm wide, red, more or less round.

Europe,W Asia, Russia.

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.