Plant Details

Accepted name:: Rosa roxburghii Tratt. [Rosaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
chestnut rose	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chinquapin rose	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ci li	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
fylld igelkottsros	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sao si hua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
saosihua	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
刺李	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
刺梨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
刺梨叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
刺梨子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
刺梨根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
刺梨花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
缫丝花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Root		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Rosa roxburghii f. normalis Rehder & E.H.Wilson in C.S.Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 2: 318 (1915).
Juzepczukia microphylla Chrshan. Rosa Eur. USSR: 110 (1958), nom. superfl.
Juzepczukia roxburghii (Tratt.) Chrshan. Rosa Eur. USSR: 110 (1958).
Platyrhodon microphyllum Hurst Z. Indukt. Abstammungs- Vererbungsl. 1927(Suppl. 2): 902 (1928), nom. superfl.
Rosa forrestii Focke Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 67 (1911).
Rosa microphylla Pamp. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 17: 295 (1910).
Rosa microphylla Roxb. ex Lindl. Ros. Monogr.: 9, 146 (1820), nom. illeg.
Rosa microphylla var. glabra Regel Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 5: 322 (1878).
Rosa microphylla var. plena Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 4: 1558 (1902).
Rosa roxbourgii Tratt. Rosac. Monogr. 2: 233 (1823), orth. var.
Rosa roxburghii f. esetosa T.C.Ku Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 10(1): 12 (1990).
Rosa roxburghii var. plena Rehder Man. Cult. Trees: 450 (1927).
Saintpierrea microphylla Germ. J. Roses (Paris) 2: 39 (1878), nom. superfl.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Rosa roxburghii	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Rosa roxburghii Sweet	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Rosa roxburghii Tratt.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Rosa roxburghii Tratt. f. normalis Rehd. & Wils.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Rosa roxburghii Tratt. f. normalis Rehd. Et Wils.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Rosa roxburghii Trattinnick	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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