Magazine  (2016)  Page(s) Table S2.  
 
rosa reversa, Origin of the sample: Loubert Rose Garden, Genetic group 12, Percentage of assignation: 95.4, 1820, Misc OGR, Unknown, Origin: Europe S, Ploidy: 3, measured

Article (website)  (13 Aug 2007)  
 
R. × reversa Waldst. et Kit. = R. pendulina L. × R. spinosissima L. = R. malyi Kern. = R. rubella Sm.– southern Europe since 1802

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 168.  
 
location 146/5, R. x reversa Waldst. & Kit. (R. pendulina x R. pimpinellifolia), PIMPINELLIFOLIAE, southern France, southeast Europe, Switzerland, 1820, reddish-cream white, single, mild fragrance, medium size, solitary, vigorous, bushy, upright, 1-2 m, many bristles, dark green small matte foliage, 9-11 leaflets, dark red rounded-ovoid large glossy fruit, upright very persistent sepals, many hips

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 16.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa x reversa Waldst. & Kit. This hybrid between R. pimpinellifolia and R. pendulina is known in the wild and combines the characteristics of the parents. It makes a bush up to 1.5 m high, with white or pink flowers, and usually dark purple pendulous fruits.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 77.  
 
reversa Waldst. & Kitt. (spinosissima x pendulina)

Book  (1918)  Page(s) 135.  
 
Mrs. H. R. Darlington.  In Praise of Single Roses. 
Rubella (alpina x spinosissima).- Carmine rose; forms a shapely bush; though classed among the summer-flowering Roses, sometimes flowers profusely in the autumn.
 

Book  (1917)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Mr. H. R. Darlington.  Some Early-Flowering Species of Roses.
Intermediate between this [spinosissima] section and the alpines is a very interesting little plant R. rubella.......
Some years ago I received a very beautiful form of this rose from Mr Mawley.  The flowers are rose-coloured and foliage is particularly attractive, even bearing a slight resemblance to that of R.macrophylla........

Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 69.  
 
ROSA reversa.

Book  (1826)  Page(s) 716.  
 
Rosa tomentosa ... Variété Mollis : appelée aussi, mais mal à propos, R. reversa, de Willdenow.

Book  (1825)  Page(s) 46-47, t.38.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa reversa...Species characteristics: Five sepals, bloom has five petals, many achenes, with short hairs, enclosed in an urn-shaped felshy ovary with shot hairs inside, surmounted by the sepals.
Pimpinellifoliae: Hispid, with dense, almost equal prickles or without prickles, without stipules (very seldom with); leaflets ovoid or elongated; the sepals reflexed inwards, persistent; the edge of the ovary barely noticeable.
Characteristics: Bristly prickles, almost equal, curved backwards, dilated. Leaflets doubly serrated, with soft hair. Fruit hispid.
Rückwärtsstachlige Rose ([Reverse-prickled Rose]
Rosa reversa. Waldstein et Kitaib. Willd. Enum. p. 545. Linley [sic] Rosar. monograph. p. 57. Hayne dendrolog. Flor. p. 93.
Fatherland: Hungary.
Soil: Common garden soil.
Blooms and fruit: Blooms June and August, fruits ripe in October.
Sowing: In autumn; the propagation is by root scions and offshoots.
Height: Grows to a small shrub of two to three feet, when cultivated a shrub of five to six feet.
Use: As with any beautiful rose.