Website/Catalog  (1993)  
 
R. webbiana Wall. ex Royle 2n=28

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 175.  
 
location 147/1, 150/1, R. webbiana Royle, Cinnamomeae, W-Himalayas, Afghanistan, 1879; light pink, single, good fragrance, medium size, solitary to cluster-flowered, floriferous, late-blooming; bushy, upright, broad, well-branched, 1,5-2 m; dark green, medium-large, matte foliage, 5-9 leaflets; orange-red, small-medium, glandular, flask-formed fruit; reflexed sepals, fall off early and singly.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 22-23.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa webbiana Royle. A shrub from 1-2 m high, with straight, slender, yellowish prickles. Leaflets 5-9, obovate or almost round, obtuse. Flowers borne singly, usually pink, sometimes with a white centre or all white. Pedicels smooth or glandular, red. Native of western Himalayas from the Pamir in Soviet central Asia to Kashmir, Tibet and Afghanistan and north to Kashgar, usually found in rather dry valleys. The closely related species R.bella and R. sertata are found in western and northern China.

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 279.  
 
R. webbiana Royle. Shrub, 1.5-2 m./5-6.6 ft. high, stems slender, with few, straight, yellowish, paired prickles; leaflets 5-9, roundish to broadly elliptic, 1.5-2 cm./0.6-0.8 in. long, simply serrate, bald or slightly puberulent beneath, base entire; petiole often prickly-glandular, stipules glandular-ciliate; flowers 1-3 together, pink, 4-5 cm./1.6-2 in. across, June, sepals glandular, often hairy outside, mostly dilated at the top, shorter than petals, persisting; fruits flask-shaped, to 2.5 cm./1 in. long, scarlet. 2n=14. WR 76; GiS4. (=R. unguicularis Bertol.; R. guilelmi-waldemarii Klotzsch). W. Himalayas; Afghanistan, Turkestan. 1879.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 180.  
 
Botanical roses on the territory of the USSR, whose independence requires precising...
R. webbiana Wall. ex Royle. According to Juseptschuk a polymorph species, requires further investigation and a comparison with the true R. webbiana (Himalaya-Rose). Not mentioned in the Flora of the Republics and Regions of the USSR.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 345-346.  
 
R. webbiana Wall, ex Royle, III. Bot. Himal. (1839)208; Rgl., Tent, Ros. Mon. (1877)30; Christ in Boiss., Fl, Or, Suppl, (1888)207,- R. hookeriana BertoL, Misc. Bot. XXIV (1863) 14.— R. hoffmeisteri Klotzsch, Bot, Ergebn, Reise Prinz Waldemar (1862) 153; Rgl, 1, c. 38.— R. guilelmiwaldemarii Klotzsch, 1, c, — R. macrophylla auct. plur, non Lindl,-Ic.: Royle, 1. c, pi. XLII, f. 2; Klotzsch, I.e. pi. VII, VLI.
Shrub, 1 m high; prickles often erect, sometimes slightly directed upward, remote or in pairs, in part very robust, gradually broadened at base, others rather thin, abruptly and strongly broadened at base, usually shorter than (very rarely as long as) the larger leaflets, whitish or straw yellow; (with the exception of turions) acicular prickles absent; leaves 2— 10 cm long; leaflets generally 7—9, orbicular, obovate or elliptic, orbicular or slightly tapering at base, obtuse, orbicular or acute at apex, 1—3 cm long, glabrous above or barely pubescent, frequently lightly appressed -hairy, eglandulose or with glands only along midrib;beneath; teeth often sinnple, 8—2 at each side; stipules mostly broad with triangular, more or less glandular divergent auricles. Flowers as a rule solitary, rarely 2—3, 4— 6 cm in diameter; pedicels 0.5—3 cm, glabrous or pubescent; hypanthia globose or ovoid, smooth or with few glands and acicular prickles; sepals as long as, longer, or (rarely) shorter than petals, entire, generally with a broadened appendage, outer sepals glabrous or pubescent, frequently glandular -hispid; petals white or pink; hypanthium mouth twice as wide as the adjacent disk; style lanate, stigma head globose or conical; fruit globose or ovate, often pendulous, fleshy, red, crowned by persistent prostrate or ascending sepals. June— July.
Mountain slopes, forest edges, shrubby formations.— Centr. Asia: T.Sh., Pam.-Al. Gen. distr.: Dzu.-Kash., Tib., Him., Afghan., Ch., Mong. Described from the Himalayas. Type in London.
Note . In spite of numerous separations of related forms in recent years, this polymorphic species is still rather broadly interpreted. Further studies and, in particular, a comparison of the Soviet forms with those of the Himalayan R.webbiana are required.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 80.  
 
Webbiana Wall. (Cinn.-Asiatic) [ploidy] 14

Book  (1932)  
 
... BB septet species R. Webbiana Wall, with 7 bivalents in emryo-sac mother cell....

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 55.  
 
Rosa Webbiana (Wallich). Native of Himalaya.

Book  (1855)  Page(s) 129.  
 
636. Rosa, Tournef. Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 1240, So named from the Celtic rhod, red, many of the species being of this colour.
...Rosa Webbiana. Papkounjo. Plants and Seeds in distribution.