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Rubus discolor

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Name

Identification
Rubus discolor Weihe & Nees [family ROSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Van de Beek A., 1996
Related name
  • Rubus grabowskii
  • Rubus rigidus
  • Rubus rigidus sm.
  • Rubus discolor

Flora

Entry for RUBUS rigidus Sm. [family ROSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 285, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
RUBUS rigidus Sm. [family ROSACEAE], ! in Rees. Cycl. 30, No. 5
RUBUS discolor E. Mey. [family ROSACEAE], !
Information
branches, panicle, petioles, and undersurfaces of the leaves densely albo-tomentose; lower leaves pinnately 5-foliolate, upper ternate or simple; leaflets broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, serrate or doubly serrate, glabrous or pilose above; panicle terminal, contracted, many flowered; calyx-segments ovato-lanceolate; petals obovate: fruit golden or fulvous, glabrous. The upper leaves are commonly 3-foliolate, the pair subsessile, the terminal an inch removed; when 5, the lowest pair is an inch from the upper. Leafl. 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches long, 1–1 1/2 wide. The glands are never plentiful and often wanting. The differences between the two varieties seem to me to be of trifling moment; the fruit in both, judging from dried specimens, seems to be pale.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In bushy places and by river banks, in many places from Tulbagh through Swellendam, and George, eastward to Albany, and in Caffraria. Mundt, E. & Z.! Drege! Mrs. Barber, &c. &c. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D., Lin. Soc)
Notes
I am indebted to Mr. Kippist for the verification with the original specimens in Linnæus's Herbarium.

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