Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 357.  
 
Hissar Rose (Rosa hissarica Slob.). This species grows on stony slopes, in mountain gorges, among shrub-lands. It is a xerophytic, short, branching shrub about 10 to 25 (seldom 60) cm high, with numerous, thin, slightly uncinate-curved thorns that are extended-cushion-shaped at their base. Compound leaves have five to seven almost orbicular or obovate leaflets. Pinkish-white flowers are borne singly and are small, about 2.5 to 3.0 cm in diameter. Spherical, red fruits are fleshy, glabrous or glandular-bristly, mainly on the top, and are constricted at the apex.

Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 355.  
 
R. hissarica (Hissar rose). Distribution: Talasskei Alatau, Karatau. Use: Ornamental tree [sic].

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 110.  
 
Rosa hissarica Slobodov. Central Asia. Cinnamomeae.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 177.  
 
Botanical roses on the territory of the USSR, whose independence requires precising...
R. hissarica Slobod. - according to Kotschkarewa a synonym for R. nanothamnus Bouleng.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 180.  
 
Botanical roses on the territory of the USSR, whose independence requires precising...
R. tschimganica H. Raj. - according to Kotschkarewa a synonym for R. hissarica Slobod. = R. nanothamnus Bouleng.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 348-349.  Includes photo(s).
 
R.hissarica Slobodov in Tr. Tadzhikist. Bazy Akad. Nauk SSSR, Vol.11 (1936) 197.
Shrub, low, strongly branching, to 25—35 cm high, bark of one -year shoots dark purple, with weak waxy bloom; prickles numerous, slightly curved, pale yellowish, with base elongated along stem, on flower -bearing shoots often erect, sometimes directed upward, at petiole base often paired or whorled; petioles armed with short prickles, pubescent; stipules narrow. glandular margin adnate to petioles over four -fifths of their length, pubescent beneath, terminating in narrow auricles; leaves with 7—9 obovate or suborbicular biserrate leaflets, pubescent on both sides, eglandulose, spreading-hairy above; teeth of leaflets curved upward, the distal tooth equal to neighboring teeth or shorter; bracts slightly broadened, the outer reddish and pubescent, the inner with isolated spreading sericeous hairs, glandular at margin; pedicels 18 mm long, glandular -downy. Flowers small, 22 mm in diameter, solitary, dark red or pink; sepals as long as petals or slightly shorter, the outer pubescent, glandular at base; fruit 15 mm
long, orbicular -oblong, apically constricted, red, usually glandular, with glands mostly clustered at apex of fruit. July. (Plate XXIX, Figure 4).
Stony slopes in the subalpine mountain zone.— Centr. Asia: Pam.-Al. Endemic. Described from Stalinabad Region, Tadzhik SSR, from the southern slopes of Gissar Range, 4 km to the north of Takhob Pass. Type in Leningrad.