Trailing to climbing or arching shrub with reddish stems. Prickles few, straight or curved. Leaflets 5-7, ovate to elliptic, hairless above, sometimes downy on the veins below, teeth simple. Flowers few in open clusters, single, smelling of musk, white or cream; summer to autumn. Styles united and protruding. Fruit ovoid, 1-1.5 cm wide, orange-red, hairy.

R. longicuspis Bertol. from SW China is a scrambling shrub with a few hooked prickles. Leaves more or less evergreen, leathery. Leaflets 5-7, ovate to elliptic, to about 10 cm long, teeth simple, hairless except sometimes a few hairs on midrib below. Flowers in open clusters, single, white, fragrant; summer. Styles united, protruding. Fruit to 2 cm wide, red or orange, roundish to ellipsoid, generally hairy.

Unknown in the wild.

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.