Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 12.  
 
From late 1906 to 1909, financed by Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, Wilson again scoured China for plants. Roses he had seen and collected in 1900 and 1901, such as R. gentiliana, R. helenae, R. giraldii var. venulosa, and R. sertata, he introduced in 1907 or shortly thereafter. ...
Wilson’s R. gentiliana is not the same as Léveillé & Vaniot’s R. gentiliana; today Wilson’s discovery is considered a synonym of R. henryi. Often seen as tangled masses in rocky places, the plant’s glabrous shoots age to a pale grey, rather like the underside grey of its shiny green leaves. The white flowers of this climbing shrub exhibit a large boss of golden yellow and exude a strong but pleasant fragrance. It is very sensitive to frost.

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 246.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 232.  
 
'Polyantha Grandiflora' Bernaix, France, 1886. ...I have for many years distributed this rose as R. gentiliana in error.

Magazine  (1940)  Page(s) 111.  
 
Boulenger* shows that the R. Gentiliana of Rehder and Wilson was not the same as the R. Gentiliana Léveille & Vaniot. The Rehder and Wilson variety is here transferred to R. Henryi Boulenger.
Rosa Henryi Boulenger var. puberula (Handel-Mazzetti) var. nov.
Rosa Gentiliana Rehder & Wilson (non Lévl. & Van.) forma puberula Hand.-Mazz. symb. Sin. 7:525 (1933).
Characterised primarily by the puberulent leaflets beneath and puberulent rachis.
Kwangsi: Pinghsiang, Wang-Te-Hui 149 (Arnold Arboretum and Hand.-Mazz. l.c.)

*Boulenger in Ann. Sci. Soc. Bruxelles 53, Ser. B: 143 (1933) and in Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 9:231 (1933); Rehder in Jour. Arnold Arb. 17:338 (1936).

Article (magazine)  (1933)  Page(s) 231.  
 
Le R. Gentiliana de Rehder et Wilson est un mélange d'espèces très differentes auquel ces auteurs ajoutent le R. adenoclada Léveillé (non Hy), dont j'ai vu le type, réduit à des fragments qui indiquent que la place de cette Rose à "fleurs rouges" et à styles libres est inclus n'est pas parmi les Synstylae.

Book  (1916)  Page(s) 312-313.  
 
[This description of Rosa Gentiliana Lévl. & Van. by Rehder & Wilson has been taken as Rosa Gentiliana Rehder & Wilson by later authors. The description was based on insufficient samples and was proven incorrect. Boulenger assigns this species in part to Rosa henryi Boulenger]

Rosa Gentiliana Léveillé & Vaniot in Bull Soc. Bot. France, LV. 55 (1908). — Willmott, Gen. Rosa, II. 513, t. (1914).
Rosa adenoclada Léveillé, in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. X. 431 (1912); Fl. Kouy-Tchéou, 353 (1915). — Willmott, Gen. Rosa, II. 517, t. (1914).
Rosa floribunda Baker in Willmott, Gen. Rosa, II. 513 (non Steven) (1914). — Rolfe in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LVIII. 210, fig. 70 (1915), descript. excludenda.
Rosa cerasocarpa Rolfe in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1915, 89, specimine Henryano No. 7007 excepto quod ad R. Rubum pertinet.
Rosa moschata maculata Hort. ex Rolfe in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LVIII. 210 (pro synon.) (1915). ...

This species is well distinguished by its glabrous shoots which become pale gray with age, by its glabrous 3-5-foliolate leaves which are shining green above, glaucescent and very pallid on the underside, with relatively broad, coarsely serrate long acuminate leaflets occasionally abruptly rounded with a short acumen. The flowers are very numerous in flattened or rounded corymbs; the fruit is small and globose. Rosa Gentiliana is abundant in the mountainous region of western Hupeh and eastern Szech'uan which would appear to mark its western limits of distribution. It is partial to rocky places from river-level to 1400 m. altitude, forming tangled masses 6 m. and more tall. The flowers are large, very fragrant, and their beauty is increased by the golden-yellow anthers. Léveillé describes the styles as "free" in his Rosa adenoclada, but this is incorrect. Miss Willmott states that R. adenoclada Léveillé is near R. lucidissima Léveillé, but we consider the last named to be only a state of the very different R. chinensis, f . spontanea Rehder & Wilson. It is probable that Rosa moschata, var. densa M. de Vilmorin (in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. XXVll. 482, fig. 134 [1902]) should be referred to R. Gentiliana Léveillé, although it is not stated whether the shoots and leaves are glabrous or pubescent.
A picture of this plant will be found under No. 060 of the collection of Wilson's photographs.