Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Rosa prattii, which Wilson found in 1903, is a rose he saw repeatedly during his several expeditions to China. Commonly found in thickets of western Sichuan, four to eight feet high, it grows at altitudes of 7,000 to 11,000 feet. Like so many species, “this pretty little rose” is pink and produces very small leaves. Wilson surmised it to be “a distinct variety.” First found by A. E. Pratt, it was introduced by Wilson.

Book  (1 May 2003)  Page(s) 356.  
 
Rosa prattii Hemsley. Shrubs 1-2.5 m tall. ...prickles scattered, yellow, straight, to 1 cm, sometimes intermixed with numerous bristles;...Leaves including petiole 5-10 cm...leaflets 7-15, elliptic or oblong, 6-20 x 4-10 mm...Flowers 2-7, in umbel-like corymb, rarely solitary, ca. 2 cm in diam....Petals 5, pink...Hip deep red, ovoid or ellipsoid, 5-8 mm in diam. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Oct.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 167.  
 
R. prattii Hemsl., CINNAMOMEAE, western China, 1908, pink, striped deep pink, single, medium size, solitary or cluster-flowered, bushy, branched, arching, 1-2 m, seldom prickles, many bristles, light-medium green medium size matte foliage, 5-7 leaflets, scarlet-red medium size ovoid fruit

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 18.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa prattii Hemsley. A bush from 1 to 2.5 m tall, with straight pale brown thorns and leaves with 10-15 small lanceolate to obovate leaflets. Flowers often 3 or more in an umbellate cyme, pale to deep pink. Fruit bottle shaped. Native of western Sichuan, especially around Kangting (Tachien-lu) at 2300-3000 m, where it flowers in June and July.

Magazine  (Jun 1908)  Page(s) 237.  
 
NOTES SUR LES ROSES DE CHINE (1)
... Groupe VI.— Cinnamomeœ.—....R. Pratii (Helmsley dans le journal de la Linnean Society, XXIX, t. 30) est une espèce de l'Ouest de la Chine, qui n'est pas encore introduite, est une plante remarquablement distincte, ressemblant
beaucoup à quelques Zanthoxylum comme aspect général. On la distingue facilement par ses-fleurs petites, les lobes du calice réfléchis, linéaires-lancéolés, ses petites feuilles très rapprochées à dents peu marquées. ..... G. Nicholson
(Traduit par M. B. Bellefin, 26, cours Morand, à Lyon. Traductions anglaises, allemandes, italiennes et russes.)
(1) Journal of the royal hort. Society.

Magazine  (1893)  Page(s) Pl. XXX.  Includes photo(s).
 
 Rosa Prattii, Hemsl. (Plate XXX.) Species pulchra ad gregem R. macrophyllae pertinens, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis maximis vix pollicaribus, floribus minoribus, calycis lobis reflexis. Rami glabri, rubescentes, inermes vel aculeis paucis mediocribus rectis instructi, ramulis lateralibus floriferis brevibus gracilibus dense foliatis. Folia brevissime petiolata, 2-3 poll, longa, rhachide gracillima parce puberula inerma vel interdum aculeis paucis minimis instructa; foliola 11-15, subsessiles, crassiuscula, apiculata, obscurissime denticulata, utrinque secus costam plus minusve puberula, supra glabrescentia, stipulis integris acutis. Flores circiter 1 poll, diametro, corymbosi, 3-7 aggregati, rarius solitarii, pedicellis gracilibus circiter 9 lineas longis glanduloso-setosis; calycis tubus anguste urceolatus, dense glanduloso-setosus, lobis e basi lata abrupte caudato-acuminatis intus extusque tomentosis intus albidis interdum apice dilatatis; petala rotundata, emarginata; styli 5, brevissime exserti, hirsuti, carpellis dorso apiceque densissime setosis. Fructus ignotus. Pratt, 116. A very distinct Rose, easily distinguished by its numerous, small, closely arranged, narrow, obscurely toothed leaflets.