Compilation
Rubus kingaensis

Straggling bush or scrambler up to c. 3·5 m. high. Flowering branches glabrous or occasionally somewhat tomentose, dark reddish-brown, rarely whitish-pruinose below, with glabrous yellowish or brownish decurved prickles 2–5 mm. long. Leaves 10–19 x 8–12 cm., 2–4-jugate or the uppermost ones ternate, rather thin and membranous in texture; petiole and rhachis aculeate like the stems; lateral leaflets shortly petiolulate, the terminal one with petiolule 0·5–2 cm. long. Leaflets ovate-acute to oblong-acuminate, with finely serrate margin; superior surface dark green, glabrous; inferior surface pale green, entirely glabrous or villous on main veins, the midrib not or finely aculeate, the lateral veins without prickles. Stipules narrowly linear, very occasionally with a few stipitate glands. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, (3)8–36 cm. long, narrowly pyramidal or pyramidal, usually much longer than the leaves, the branches spreading, greyish-tomentose. Calyx greyish-tomentose, very occasionally glandular-hairy, divided into lanceolate-acuminate lobes 5–8 mm. long. Petals usually present although inconspicuous, pink, narrow, shorter than the sepals. Fruits globose, c. 0·6 mm. long, red when ripe; carpels relatively few (10–35), glabrous.