Book  (2013)  Page(s) 93.  
 
Azerbaijan.
Rosaceae
48. Rosa zakatalensis Gadzh. Near Threatened.
This rose species is distributed in the Zakatala region, in the Greater Caucasus, where it is known from two locations. Despite the current stability of the populations, the population density is relatively low, and it may be susceptible to the effects of human activities or stochastic events. As a valuable medicinal and ornamental species, this is under threat from the over-collection of fruits for medicinal purposes by the local population.

Article (magazine)  (2009)  Page(s) 30.  
 
R. mollis Sm.   Source RJBM [Réal Jardin Botanico Madrid] Chromosome Number 28

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 534.  Includes photo(s).
 
Species group Rosa tomentosa Sm.
1-1.5 m high shrubs with straight or slightly curved, but never sickle-shaped prickles, to 1 cm, strongly expanded only at their base. 5-7 leaflets, oval glandular doubly serrated, both sides downy pubescent, grey-green beneath, with or without glands. Blooms light to dark red, diameter 3-4.5 cm. 2 petals foliaceous, 2 entire, one foliaceous one one side, upright or reflexed after blooming, mostly persistent, with many glands and glandular bristles. Fruit bright red, generally with glands and glandular bristles.

Rosa mollis Sm. Weiche Rose, Rosier à feuilles molles, Rosa a foglie flosce. Branches and prickles straight. Leaflets oval, rounded at the front and at the base, above closely placed, beneath silky pubescent, with many glandular hairs.. Pedicel generally with few delicate glands. Blooms red. Sepals remain erect, persistent after blooming. June. Stony slopes, thickets, hilly-mountaneous areas....2n=28.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 237.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa mollis Sm. Weiche Rose. Similar to [Rosa villosa L.], but leaflets more elliptical, final leaflet maximum 3 cm long. Style channel broad (1,2-)1,6(-2,2) mm...Pedicel occasionally and only sparsely glandular. Fruit usually does not droop after ripening.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 160.  
 
location 150/4, R. mollis Smith, CANINAE, northern + western Europe, Anatolia, 1818, deep pink, semi-double, single, medium size, solitary or cluster-flowered, vigorous, bushy, upright, arching, 1 m, many bristles, medium green small matte foliage, reddish canes, 7-9 leaflets, scarlet-red small glossy rounded-ovoid fruit, reflexed sepals, fall off complete

Book  (2 Jan 1984)  Page(s) 76.  
 
Rosa mollis (R. mollissima (Fried); R. villosa var. mollissima (Rau)). Description... there is also a variety with white flowers...

Website/Catalog  (1981)  
 
R. mollis 2n=28

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 364.  
 
R. mollis Smith in Sowerby, Engl. Bot. XXXV (1812) t. 2459. - R. villosa L., Sp. PI. 1753)704 saltern p. p. (nomen confusum). — R. andrzeiowskii Stev. in Bess., Cat. hort. Crem. (l81l) Suppl. IV, 19 et (1816) 117; Enum. pi. Pod. Volh. (1822) 19. - R. ciliopetala Bess., Fl, Pod. et Volh. (1822) 66. — R. m ollissima Fr. Novit., ed. 2 (1828) 61; id. Nov., Fl. suec, ed.2 (1828) 151, non Willd. - R. ruprechti Boiss., Fl. Or. II (l872) 682 . - Exs.: HFRNo.2146, 2147.
Shrub, low -growing, few -branched, 0.5— 1.5 m high; branches short, erect, with glaucous tinge (like leaves); prickles thin, usually quite erect, sometimes directed slightly upward, often irregular; leaves 3— 20 cm long; leaflets 3—9, medium-sized, approximate, orbicular -ovate or obovate, rarely slightly elongated, frequently rounded at both ends, pubescent on both sides, dark gray-green, sericeous-luminous, often densely tomentose beneath, sometimes more or less glandular above, doubly glandular-serrate, with 15—30 large, obtuse, usually acuminate teeth at each side; petioles more or less pubescent, with stalked glands mixed with small pricklets; stipules frequently large with auricles pointed in different directions, margins with large glands. Flowers solitary or 3—13 in corymbiform inflorescences, 2.5—6.5 cmi in diameter; pedicels very short, with few stalked glands; hypanthia globose, smooth or glandular-hispid; sepals short-mucronate, with 3 narrow lateral pinnules, approached after flowering, persistent; petals dark pink, longer than sepals, sometimes with glandular margins; style heads sessile, tomentose; disk flat or concave, often considerably reduced; fruit small (l .5 cmi long), ovoid or globose, smooth or often more or less glandular -hispid, often slightly longer than pedicels, orange or dark red. June— July.
Riverbanks, shrubby formations, forest edges.— European part: Lad.- Ilm., U. Dnp., M.Dnp., V. -Don (Oalich'ya Gora, Donets); Caucasus: Cisc, Dag,, E. Transc. Gen. distr.: Scand., Centr. Eur., Atl. Eur.; Bal.-As. Min., Arm. -Kurd., Iran?

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 74.  
 
mollis Smith (sspec of villosa L.) [pollen quality] 40% [ploidy] 28 ([thereof univalents:] 14)

Website/Catalog  (1929)  Page(s) 70.  
 
Rose Species
Rosa Mollis, Smith. (Europe and Western Asia.) A purple-branched shrub with deep pink flowers 2 to 3 inches across.