Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Wilson chanced across two varieties of R. giraldii, which Belgian botanist Francois Crepin had described in 1897, the year G. Giraldi had discovered it in Shensi province of China. The glabruiscula form shows small, rosy-pink flowers and glabrous leaves; the venulosa form is differentiated from the principle variety and the latter by its distinctive reticulation—a network of veins—on the underside of its leaves. The flowers are pink. According to Jack Harkness, given its decumbent canes, it is “a bush pretending to be a weeping willow.”

Website/Catalog  (2006)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Rosa giraldii Crép. var. venulosa Rehd. et Wilson

Book  (1 May 2003)  
 
Rosa giraldii var. venulosa Rehder & E. H. Wilson in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 2: 328. 1915.
毛叶陕西蔷薇 mao ye shan xi qiang wei
Leaflets abaxially densely pubescent, distinctly reticulate, adaxially pubescent.
Scrub; 1000--1600 m. W Hubei, S Shaanxi, Sichuan.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 152.  
 
location 147/1, R. giraldii Crép. var. venulosa Rehd. Wils., cluster-flowered, floriferous, late-blooming, very floriferous, upright-arching, to 3 m, many prickles, 7-9 leaflets, light orange, small-medium glossy glandular bottle-shaped fruit, upright persistent sepals