Book  (1997)  Page(s) 225.  
 
R. rugosa typica (R. rugosa rugosa) Rugosa. Japan. c. 1796. Description and cultivation... probably nearest to the true wild species... flowers: single, scented, deep reddish-carmine...

Website/Catalog  (1997)  Page(s) 20.  
 
Typica  This rose is accepted as being the type of the species of the wild R. rugosa.  Single flowers of bright crimson-purple with creamy stamens followed by a splendid crop of orange-red heps.  Average [height].  Remontant. 

Book  (Nov 1993)  Page(s) 32-33.  
 
Page 32: [Photo]
Page 33: R. rugosa 'Typica' Mauve-pink blooms with rosy red hips

Book  (Nov 1993)  Includes photo(s).
 
p32. Photo.  R. rugosa 'Typica'. 
p33.  The biggest single flowers of all are to be found on 'Scabrosa' with its huge saucers of fuchsia-pink petals which give way to equally large red hips.  R. rugosa 'Typica' has mauve-pink blooms with rosy red hips as well. 
p159.  photo.  The cherry-red hips of the Rugosa Rose 'Typica'.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 170.  
 
R. rugosa Thunb. var. typica Regel, CINNAMOMEAE, violet-pink, shaded darker, single, medium-large, solitary or in twos, moderately blooming, good fragrance, vigorous, upright, 1.8-2 m, very bristly, 5-7 leaflets, blood-red medium size glossy rounded fruit, upright sepals, fall off complete, many hips

Book  (1986)  Page(s) 114.  Includes photo(s).
 
Typica.  A name not accepted in some circles today but still in use.  Some species have been grown from seed and others have been collected from many different places and this of course leads to many variations.  Large, single, cerise-pink and fragrant. 

(1979)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Scabrosa.  Large single magenta flowers.  Large red heps. 

Typica  Single flowers of bright crimson purple.  Not as tall as Scabrosa.  Large red heps. 

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 235.  
 
R. rugosa.  Tall. Lilac pink. Remontant.  
The original species is officially named R. rugosa typica or R. rugosa rugosa.  Its identity, however, is only approximate, because successive sowings of seeds have thrown up varied progeny;  such seedlings are of use if some kind of naturalized planting is desired, especially in coastal areas, as R. rugosa is normally willing to grow near the sea. For gardens, however, the selected forms or hybrids are much better, especially as budded plants, whereby their natural desire to sucker is controlled. 
R. rugosa  typica and most of its forms are marked by valuable attributes in leaf, flower and fruit. The leaves are large and wrinkled (the Latin for a wrinkle is ruga), making  the plants into a solid block; they are more resistant to the usual fungus diseases than any other rose. The flowers are large for a wild rose, and in most cases continue to arrive spasmodically over a period of several months. The hips are like small tomatoes, and ripen quickly. 
Such valuable tendencies ought to establish Rugosas in popular favour, but they somehow miss being loved as they deserve; how can one say why? Does the solidity of the plant fail to express the ethereal nature of the rose? Does consistency in performance  detract from the rose's charm  of transience? Are roses so much treasured for cutting their flowers, that R. rugosa's inutility in that respect excludes it from gardens? It awaits our approval, hardy, healthy, early in leaf, yellow at leaf fall, fragrant, showing flower and hips for successive months. 
R. rugosa typica should be expected to have flowers of light rosy lilac. It is still known  in some quarters as R. regeliana; I recently heard Australian growers using that name. The close set bristly thorns on the pale young growths earned it the name R. ferox. Its vernacular names are Rugosa Rose, Japanese Rose and Ramanas Rose. 
I must have  asked a hundred rosarians over the years to  tell me what  Ramanas means, without finding one who knew. I published the question in a British gardening magazine in vain. Perhaps some reader can enlighten me. 
It comes  from north China, Korea and  Japan, and reached  England from Japan about 1796.  I have used the term remontant minus, because although Rugosas may be in flower from early summer to autumn, it is not the whole bush which flowers a second time, but later shoots arriving in a haphazard way. 

Book  (1951)  Page(s) 61.  
 
Graham S. Thomas. Perpetual Flowering Shrub Roses. Among the singles are Rosa rugosa typica (atropurpurea or rubra), wine crimson.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 77.  
 
rubra Hort. (synonym of rugosa var. typica Reg.)