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This genus is accepted, and its native range is Temp. & Subtropical to Tropical Mountains.
Rubus sp (Rosaceae)

[FTEA]

Rosaceae, R. A. Graham. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1960

Morphology General Habit
Shrubs or scramblers, erect or with long, ± arching sterile shoots (turions) arising from the base and rooting if and when touching the ground
Morphology Stem
Stems pruinose or not, armed in tropical East African species with prickles, glabrous varying to villous or tomentose, sometimes abundantly covered with ± reddish bristly hairs or stipitate glands
Morphology Leaves
Leaves of tropical East African species petiolate, stipulate, simple, trifoliate, imparipinnate, quinnate or septenate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers perigynous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx-lobes 5, clasping, spreading or reflexing, connate near the base
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 5, often much reduced or absent
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens many, the filaments commonly glabrous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Carpels
Carpels many, each containing two ovules, aggregated into a head
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit consisting of many one-seeded drupes crowded together on an enlarged or elongated receptacle, which may or may not come away when ripe.

[FZ]

Rosaceae, E. J. Mendes. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978

Morphology General Habit
Prickly shrubs, sometimes glandular (but rarely so in the F.Z. area); stems scrambling, trailing or occasionally prostrate, often becoming thick and woody and hollow with age.
Morphology Leaves
Leaflets with serrated margins, glabrous to densely hairy. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, trifoliolate, imparipinnate with 2–3(4) pairs of lateral leaflets, or the uppermost leaves sometimes simple.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules filiform, linear or obovate, free or adnate to the base of the petiole.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers sometimes solitary, more usually in dense or open many-flowered inflorescences borne at and near the ends of branches. Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, slightly perigynous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Perigynous zone (= calyx-tube) shallowly cup-shaped; calyx segments 5, equal, longer than calyx-tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 5, alternating with sepals, inserted on margin of perigynous cup, conspicuous or inconspicuous, or sometimes absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens ∞, inserted on rim of cup.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Carpels
Carpels many (c. 15–100 +), borne on a spongy elongate receptacle, developing into drupelets, the fruit usually sweet and edible.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary Ovules
Ovules 2, one of them aborting.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Ascension, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Congo, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, Florida, France, Free State, Føroyar, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Solomon Is., South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Svalbard, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Comoros, Galápagos, Juan Fernández Is., Marquesas, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Society Is., Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Uruguay

Rubus L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Bullock, A.A. 16103.000
Verdcourt, B. [4407], United Kingdom 29932.000
Verdcourt, B. [4408], United Kingdom 29940.000
Stirton, C.H. [9797], South Africa 49810.000
Stirton, C.H. [9796], South Africa 50105.000
Albury [ACW2350], Turkey 54714.000
Coode, M.J.E. [6286], Indonesia 55437.000
Baretto, G. [s.n.], Hong Kong 73436.000
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.] K001132343
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.] K001132344

First published in Sp. Pl.: 492 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 13: 267–276 (1935)
  • Gustafsson in Arkiv. för Bot. 26A, 7: 1–68 (1934)
  • Kew Bull. 1938: 177–187.
  • —F.T.A. 2: 374

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 218 (1754).
  • Sp. Pl. 1: 492 (1753)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 218 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 492 (1753)

Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China
The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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