Rosa livescensBesser

WFO wfo-0000984004 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rosa livescens, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. a Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-21 / obs. 58576637
Rosa livescens, photographed by Tatyana Sova
fig. b Tatyana Sova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109710290
Rosa livescens, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. c Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58576635
Rosa livescens, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. d Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58576640
Rosa livescens, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58576641
Rosa livescens, photographed by Tatyana Sova
fig. f Tatyana Sova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109710287
Rosa livescens, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58576628
Rosa livescens, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58576642

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa livescens is native: North Caucasus, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Ukraine North CaucasusCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Rosa livescens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Rosa chrshanovskii Dubovik
  • Rosa gallica var. livescens (Besser) Ser.
  • Rosa gallica var. pygmaea Boiss.
  • Rosa grossheimii Chrshan.
  • Rosa homoacantha Dubovik
  • Rosa jundzillii var. jundzilliana (Christ) Prodan
  • Rosa jundzillii var. livescens (Besser) R.Keller
  • Rosa krynkensis Ostapko
  • Rosa livescens var. genuina Heinr.Braun
  • Rosa livescens var. jundzilliana (Christ) Soó
  • Rosa livescens var. major Besser ex Déségl.
  • Rosa parviuscula Chrshan. & Lasebna
  • Rosa pygmaea M.Bieb.
  • Rosa ratomskiana Besser
  • Rosa scabrata J.Henning
  • Rosa schistosa Dubovik
  • Rosa subpygmaea Chrshan.
  • Rosa talijevii Dubovik
  • Rosa trachyphylla f. jundzilliana Christ
  • Rosa trachyphylla var. livescens (Besser) Heinr.Braun
  • Rosa ucrainica Chrshan.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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