Website/Catalog  (2003)  
 
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Kuramin Region: 1000-1800 m. Sagebrush deserts. Enriched with ephemeral communities and xerophytic bushes (Amygdalus spinosissima, Cerasus verrucosa, Rosa maracandica)

Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 358.  
 
Samarkand Rose (Rosa maracandica Bunge). This species grows on stony slopes of the middle mountain belt. It is a xero-mesophytic, vogorously branching, low-growing shrub with scaly bark on old branches and brown-red young branches. Thorns are approximate and firm, strongly trigonal-extended at the base. Compound leaves with seven to nine leaflets are 7 to 9 cm long, and oblong-ovate or orbicular. Golden-yellow flowers are born singly. They are 1.7 to 2.5 cm in diameter and have lanceolate sepals that are mostly pubescent on both sides. Black-violet, glossy, glabrous fruits are globular, 5 to 7 mm in diameter.

Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 355.  
 
R. maracandica (Samarkand rose). Distribution: Talasskei Alatau. Use: Ornamental, honey plant.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 187.  
 
Endemische Wildrosenarten der Flora der UdSSR, die für den Zierpflanzenanbau Bedeutung erlangen könnten...
Sektion Cinnamomeae DC
R. maracandica Bge.
Mem. Acad. Petersb. sav. Etrang. 7 (1854) 286
(R. ecae Ait., R. webbiana var. maracandica Christ., R. xanthina var. ecae Bouleng.)
Büsche: bis 1 m hoch, stark verzweigt, mit gewundenen Trieben, Rinde an alten Zweigen grau-schuppig, an jungen Trieben bräunlich-rot, Stacheln einheitlich, eng stehend, horizontal oder nach oben abstehend, 0,8 bis 0,9 cm, plattgedrückt, mit stark dreieckig verbreiterter polsterartiger Basis, bräunlich rot, alte Stacheln grau.
Blättchen: (5) 7 bis 9, klein (0,2) 0,4 bis 0,7 cm lang, eiförmig-länglich oder fast rund, drüsig, Oberseite schwach, Unterseite dichter behaart und mit kurzen stielartigen Drüsen besetzt, am Rand (3) 4 bis 9 einfach drüsige und doppelt unregelmässige Zähne und drüsige Zähnchen. Stiele kahl, drüsig oder dicht kurz behaart und manchmal stachlig.
Blüten: einzelständig, Blütenstiele 0,5 bis 1,5 cm lang, 0,5 mm dick. Kelchblätter lanzettlich, 0,4 bis 0,6 cm lang, auf beiden  Seiten behaart, aussen drüsig, fallen nicht ab. Blumenkrone 1,7 bis 2,5 cm breit, goldgelb.
Früchte: kugelförmig, 0,5 bis 0,9 cm breit, kahl, schwarz-violett, glänzend.
Auf steinigen Hängen in der mittleren Bergregion.
Verbreitungsgebiet: UdSSR, Bez. Taschkent, Namangan, Fergana, Kaschka-Darin, Surchan Darin. Afghanistan.

[Saakov is stating here R. maracandica as synonymous with R. ecae, which is not supported by other botanists.]

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 346-347.  
 
R. maracandica Bge. in Mem. sav. etrang. VII (l85l) 286.— R. platyacantha var. carnea Franch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Bot. XVI (1883) 286.- R.glutinosa Franch., I.e. 287, non Sm. - R. kulikalani ca B.Fedtsch. in Tr. Tadzh. Bazy Akad. Nauk SSSR, t. II (1936) 142.
Shrub, divaricate, with flexuous or erect, glaucous, glabrous branches; prickles numerous, remote, equal, in pairs on flower -bearing branches, strong, erect, slightly directed upward, flattened at base, markedly longer than leaflets, straw yellow; petioles unarmed, glabrous or pubescent, often glandular; stipules linear, short, acute, with slightly divergent auricles and glandular margins; leaflets 5—7, small, orbicular, coriaceous, glaucescent, tapering at base, truncate or rounded at apex, nearly glandular-biserrate- bidentate, often more or less finely glandular beneath. Flowers solitary or 2 on short pedicels, 5— 6 mm long, generally glabrous, rarely puberulent, sometimes glandular; bracts reduced; hypanthia ovoid, glabrous or glandular-prickly; sepals narrowly lanceolate, with appendage, entire, glabrescent or pubescent, glandular -margined, directed upward in fruit, closing; corolla white (or pale pink?); style densely villous, free, forming a rather compact head; fruit 1—1.5 cm long, subsessile (pedicels 2' mm long), ovate-urceolate or ovate -oblong, bright red, rather fleshy. June.
Mountains. — Centr. Asia: T. Sh. (W.), Pam.-Al. Probably endemic. Described from right affluents of Upper Zaravshan River near Uramitan. Type in Paris.
Economic importance. A rather good vitamin source.
Note. The description of this species by Boissier, Fl. Or. II, 671 does not agree with that of Bunge and apparently refers to another plant (probably R. kokanica Rgl. or R. ecae Aitch.).

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Rosa maracandica (Bunge). Native of Turkestan.

Magazine  (1882)  Page(s) 118.  
 
3. Rosa maracandica from Turkestan and
4. Rosa turkestanica. None of the two is quite exactly known.