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Rubus lasiocarpus

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Rubus lasiocarpus Focke [family ROSACEAE ] (stored under name); Rubus inopterus (Diels) Focke [family ROSACEAE ] Verified by N. T. Hiep,
Related name
  • Rubus lasiocarpus
  • Rubus indicus
  • Rubus leucocarpus
  • Rubus horsfieldii
  • Rubus niveus
  • Rubus pauciflorus
  • Rubus furfuraceus
  • Rubus inopertus
  • Rubus inopterus

Flora

Entry for RUBUS niveus Thunb. [family ROSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1960) Author: R. A. GRAHAM
Names
RUBUS niveus Thunb. [family ROSACEAE], Dissert. Rubi: 9 (1813); Focke in Bibl. Bot. 72: 182 (1911). Type uncertain
RUBUS lasiocarpus Sm. [family ROSACEAE], in Rees, Cycl. 30, No. 6 (1819); Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 339 (1878) max. ex parte fide Focke. Type: India, Rottler (LINN–SM, holo.!)
Information
An erect, bushy shrub. Stems glabrescent. Leaves imparipinnate (2–3-jugate); leaflets green and thinly hairy above, whitish-grey-tomentose beneath; the terminal leaflets broadly ovate, basally cordate, larger than the elliptic or ± ovate-elliptic lateral leaflets. Inflorescence short, ± corymbose, leafy and usually overtopped by leaves. Calyx lobes ± 5 mm. long, exceeding the petals, densely pilose. Carpels densely tomentose.
Range
DISTR. K4; T2, 3 an Indian and Malayan bramble, introduced into East Africa.
Distribution
KENYA Nairobi, July 1937, van Someren 142!TANGANYIKA Moshi District Lyamungu, Mar. 1944, Wallace 1194!TANGANYIKA Lushoto, July 1955, Benedicto 47!

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