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Rosa nutkana C. Presl subsp. melina (Greene) W. H. Lewis & B. Ertter, Novon. 17: 345. 2007.
Rocky Mountain rose
Rosa melina Greene, Pittonia 4: 10. 1899; R. oreophila Rydberg; R. pandorana Greene; R. underwoodii Rydberg
Description...
Subspecies melina [6x (DNA)] is endemic to high elevations of the Rocky Mountains Biogeographic Province, where it is often associated with Populus tremuloides Michaux. Curved prickles, glandular sepals, and 2- or 3-serrate leaflets help distinguish subsp. melina where it overlaps with subsp. macdougalii in southeastern Idaho and northern Utah. Significant distributional overlap occurs also with Rosa woodsii subsp. manca, which can occur in mixed or adjacent populations. Subspecies melina is generally at higher elevations, flowers somewhat earlier than subsp. manca, and is hexaploid (the latter is diploid).

Article (magazine)  (Sep 2007)  Page(s) 345-346.  
 
Rosa nutkana C. Presl. subsp. melina (Greene) W. H. Lewis & Ertter, comb. et stat. nov. Basionym: Rosa melina Greene, Pittonia 4: 10. 1899. TYPE: USA. Colorado: Montrose Co., Cerro Summit, near Cimarron, 30 Aug 1896. E. L. Greene s.n. (holotype, NDG 23707). Figure 1E-H.
....Rosa nutkana subsp. melina is endemic to high mountains of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah and rare in southeastern Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, often on isolated peaks and ridges in or at edges of aspen, fir, spruce, and/or pine forest at elevations of 2500-3800+ m. This distribution, to some degree, includes the subspecies in the South Rocky Mountain Floristic Element...., paralleling that of R. woodsii subsp. manca except for the Mogollon Rim component. In some regions, as in central and western Colorado and southeastern Utah, R. nutkana subsp. melina is frequent and may be found growing near or with R. woodsii subsp. manca, but the subspecies also occurs at higher elevations beyond the others' range. Hybriods are possible but not expected even in mixed or nearby populations; this is because R. nutkana subsp. melina is hexaploid, while R. woodsii subsp. manca is diploid and because flowering of R. nutkana subsp. melina occurs before that of R. woodsii subsp. manca, although there can be an overlap of anthesis. No intermediate tetraploid hybrid has been found.

Article (magazine)  (Sep 2007)  Page(s) 345-346.  
 
Rosa nutkana C. Presl. subsp. melina (Greene) W. H. Lewis & Ertter, comb. et stat. nov. ...
Rosa underwoodii Rydberg, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 560. 1904. Syn. nov. [new synonym]TYPE: USA. Colorado: Ouray Co., W. of Ouray, above Box añon. 2300-2700 m. 8 Sep. 1904. L. M. Underwood & A. D. Selby 122 (holotype, NY 429915).

Article (magazine)  (Sep 2007)  Page(s) 345.  
 
Rosa nutkana C. Presl. subsp. melina (Greene) W. H. Lewis & Ertter, comb. et stat. nov. ....
Rosa oreophila Rydberg. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 561. 1904. Syn. nov. [new Synonym] TYPE: USA. Colorado: Routt Co., Four-miles Hill, 2590 m. 22 July 1896. C. F. Baker s.n. (holotype, NY 415860; isotypes, MO 1951203, NDC 23560, NY 415862).

Book  (Sep 2007)  Page(s) 345-346.  
 
Rosa nutkana C.Presl subsp. melina (Greene) W.H. Lewis & Ertter
synoyms Rosa melina Greene...1896; Rosa oreophila Rydberg; Rosa pandorana Greene ex Rydberg; Rosa underwoodii Rydberg
Rosa nutkana subsp. melina is endemic to high mountains of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah and rare in southeastern Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, often on isolated peaks and ridges in or at edges of aspen, fir, spruce, and/or pine forest at elevations of 2500-3800+ m. This distribution, to some degree, includes the subspecies in the South Rocky Mountain Floristic Element, paralleling that of R. woodsii subsp. manca except for the Mogollon Rim component. In...central and western Colorado and southeastern Utah, R. nutkana subsp. melina is frequent and may be found growing near...R. woodsii subsp. manca, but [R. nutkana subsp. melina] also occurs at higher elevations...R. nutkana subsp. melina is hexaploid, while R. woodsii subsp. manca is diploid.

Book  (Sep 2007)  Page(s) 342.  
 
Key...Rosa nutkana in Western North America:
Shrubs short, .4 - 1.0 (-1.5) m tall; fertile branches armed...or rarely unarmed; sepal outer surfaces mostly stipitate-glandular; higher elevations of southern Rocky Mtns....(2500-3800+ m).....subsp. melina

Website/Catalog  (2006)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Rosa oreophila Rydb.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 174.  
 
location 147/1, R. underwoodii Rydberg, CINNAMOMEAE, southern North America, white, single, moderate fragrance, medium size, solitary, few blooms, late-blooming, bushy, upright-arching, 2 m, many bristles, branched, light-medium green medium size matte foliage, 7-9 leaflets, blood-red medium size, matte-glossy flat-rounded hips, upright persistent sepals

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 163.  
 
location 146/15, 147/1, 203/4, R. oreophila Rydberg, CINNAMOMEAE, North America, 1889, light pink to pink, medium size, fragrant, single, solitary or cluster-flowered, floriferous, cluster-flowered, bushy, branched, 1-4 m, climbing, few prickles, light green medium size matte foliage, 5-7 leaflets, orange-red small-medium glossy rounded fruit, upright sepals, fall off complete, moderate amount of hips

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Rosa melina  A short, dense shrub with rose pink flowers.  1930  G. Shade tolerant.  (S) 3 x 3’.