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Rubus fruticosus

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Identification
Rubus fruticosus L. [family ROSACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Rubus parvifolius
  • Rubus indet.
  • Rubus nitidus
  • Rubus villosus
  • Rubus sp.
  • Rubus corylifolius
  • Rubus plicatus
  • Rubus glandulosus
  • Rubus fruticosus

Flora

Entry for RUBUS fruticosus Ch. & Schl. var. Bergii [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 fruticosus Ch. & Schl. var. Bergii [family ROSACEAE], Linn. 2, p. 16
RUBUS fruticosus E. & Z. [family ROSACEAE], ! 1703.
RUBUS Bergii E. & Z. [family ROSACEAE], ! 1704.
Information
stem arching, villoso-pubescent or glabrate; prickles slender, straightish or hooked, pale, numerous on the inflorescence and twigs; leaves digitately 5–3 foliolate, glabrous or thinly pubescent above, naked or tomentose beneath; leaflets ovate or rhomboid, sharply serrate, the medial largest; panicle corymboso-fastigiate; calyx-segments ovate, acuminate, tomentose; fruit glabrous, juicy, black, of few carpels. The common bramble or blackberry of the Cape. It varies, as elsewhere, in pubescence, shape of leaflets, prickles, and other minor characters.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA About the Lion and Table Mountains, and near Klapmuts, Stell.! E. & Z.! Common near Rondebosh, Newlands and Protea, W.H.H. (Herb. Sond.)

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