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Flora
Entry for RUBUS pinnatus Willd. [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 pinnatusWilld. [family ROSACEAE], Sp. 2, p. 1081;—Cham. & Schl. in Linn. 2, p. 19. E. & Z.! 1705.
RUBUS PappeiE. & Z. [family ROSACEAE], ! 1706.
Information
branches, panicle and petioles thinly villoso-tomentose, leaves pinnate, 5–9 foliolate, green, and glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces; leaflets very shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, penninerved beneath, doubly and unequally serrate, the serratures acuminate; the terminal leaflet largest; panicle terminal, many flowered; petals shorter than the taper-pointed, tomentose calyx-lobes; fruit glabrous, golden, of few carpels. Stems roundish or slightly angular, the younger ones covered with cobwebby hairs, the older often naked. Leaves 3–6 inches long; leaflets 1–3 inches long, 1/2–2 inches wide, occasionally slightly hairy beneath, especially on the nerves; the uppermost leaves 3-foliolate. Calyx of the fruit erect or spreading, not reflexed. I cannot distinguish R. Pappei from ordinary “ pinnatus ,” taking Cham. & Schl.'s description as my guide.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hanglip, Mundt. Table Mountain sides; also Krakakamma and Adow, Uit., and on the Kat River, E. & Z.! Zuureberg Forest, A. Wyley! (Herb. Sd., D.)
