I know little about the flora of the region but I have serious doubts that the rose photographed represents a 'wild' species. It clearly is a cultivated plant. My understanding is that the wild R.leschenaultiana has SINGLE flowers.
The situation is confused by the JCB Herbarium see: http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=3768&cat=1 having a photo of a similar cultivated rose as this. Whereas they have a pressed specimen with single flowers. In the description it says 5 large white petals! See: http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=3768&cat=1 The line drawing on Wikimedia, see: https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rosa_leschenaultiana#/media/File:Rosa_leschenaultiana.jpg also does NOT match the images taken at Madikeri. On Monday, 11 April 2011 19:27:59 UTC+1, Dinesh Valke wrote: > Dear friends, > > Attached (cropped) photos are of one of the rare rose found in the high > altitude wilderness of southern and central Western Ghats ... most > probably endemic. > *Rosa leschenaultiana* Red. & Thory ex. Wight & Arn ... *Rosa > sempervirens* var. *leschenaultiana* Thory (basionym) > Not much is discussed about this plant on the internet. > > Used "Wildflowers of Kodagu" by Dr T Ananda Rao as reference for ID ... he > mentions local name as ಕಾಡು ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಹೂವು *kaadu gulaabi huvu*, translated > would mean: wild briar (OR brier) flower > A Badaga-English dictionary by Paul Hockings, Christiane Pilot-Raichoor > has an entry for this plant with English names as Nilgiri cluster-rose, > Nilgiri dog-rose. > > Will be glad to know the Tamil name of this plant OR the local name used > by people of Nilgiri ... would it be *semmati* OR *cemmati* ? > > > Date/Time : March 30, 2011 at 5.59pm IST > Location Place : outskirts of Madikeri town, Karnataka ... 12.450505, > 75.711958 on Google maps <http://goo.gl/maps/9b5F> > Altitude : 3606 ft (above mean sea level) > > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > PS: Please bear with the quality of photos ... all the 3 days at Coorg > were overcast. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
