Website/Catalog  (2020)  Page(s) 37.  
 
Rosa wichuraiana.....Cg. 

Article (magazine)  (2009)  Page(s) 30.  
 
R. wichurana Crép. Source RJBM [Réal Jardin Botanico Madrid] Chromosome Number 14

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 153-154.  
 
Rosa wichurana

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 154.  
 
R. wichurana

Article (magazine)  (2001)  Page(s) 393.  
 
R. wichurana Crép. Ploidy 2x
Pollen fertility 98.3%
Selfed Fruit set 0%

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 60-61.  
 
Rosa wichuraiana/’Memorial Rose’/Rosa luciliae – Rosier botanique – blanc… aiguillons crochus, épars mais redoutables.. souples rameaux vert foncé.. feuilles à 7 ou 9 folioles arrondies, vert émeraude luisant.. bouquets coniques de fleurs blanches odorantes de 3 à 4cm de diamètre.. Les petits fruits ronds ou ovoïdes sont rouge sombre.. Chine et Japon 1843

Magazine  (2000)  Page(s) 85. Vol 94, Part 3.  
 
Charles Quest-Ritson.  England v Germany: the Wichurana Ramblers.
Now for the controversial bit: the trailing evergreen rose that was first collected by Max Ernst Wichura in 1958 should be known as Rosa wichurana and not Rosa wichuraiana.  There is no room for argument: the old spelling breaches the rules set out in the  'Tokyo Code' of Botanical Nomenclature in 1995.  This states, after explaining that personal names may be used to form specific epithets, that 'if the personal name ends with a vowel, adjectival epithets are formed by adding -an- plus the nominative singular inflection appropriate to the gender of the generic name, except where the personal name ends with -a, in which case -n- plus the appropriate inflection is added.' Thus Wichura should be commemorated as wichurana and not as wichuraiana.  It matters not that the original spelling was different: the Tokyo Code also states: 'the use of a termination contrary to (the rules) is treated as an error to be corrected.'
It is one of the ironies of horticultural nomenclature that the man after whom these famous ramblers are named had no interest in roses. Wichura was a lawyer from Neisse in Silesia.  He worked in Berlin as a civil servant – botany was just a hobby – and he died from carbon-monoxide poisoning in 1866, at the age of 49. Wichura  collected herbarium specimens for the Berlin Botanic Gardens when a member of the Prussian Diplomatic mission to China and Japan in 1959-60.
Nobody knows when seed or live material was first introduced from Japan – probably about 1885 – nor whether it came first to Europe or America. What we do know is that Crépin first described Rosa wichurana (from a herbarium specimen) in 1886: it was a split from R. luciae, which Crépin himself had described, and named in 1871. This has led some botanists to refer to the hybrids, as Luciae Ramblers, but Crépin was adamant that typical Rosa luciae had not been introduced into Europe at the time when the earliest Wichurana Hybrids were being bred. 
So, let us be in no doubt: the species is Rosa wichurana and the beautiful hybrids are Wichurana Ramblers. 

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 60-61.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa wichuraiana ('Memorial Rose', R. luciliae)... glossy dark green leaves... Conical clusters of single white, fragrant flowers... appear in mid-to-late summer. Small, oval to round, dark red hips follow...

Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 16.  
 
R. wichuraiana An ancient native of China... introduced to the world [in 1860]... Jackson & Perkins quickly scrambled its pollen to hybridize some of the world's first Ramblers, beginning with 'Dorothy Perkins' in 1900. Flowers: white, single. Hips: oval, red.

Article (newsletter)  (May 1998)  Page(s) 4.  
 
R. wichuraiana Crépin ('Teriha-No-ibara')... Teriha is Japanese for "glossy leaves"... grows wild almost everywhere... The German botanist Dr. Max Ernst Wichura was in Japan between 1859 and 1861 and during this time sent plants of this rose back to Europe one of which was seen by the Belgian botanist F. Crépin... who named this rose wichuraiana to commemorate Dr. Wichura... discussion of descendants...