Rubus questieri, P. J. Mueller & Lefevre

26. R. questieri P. J. Mueller & Lefèvre View in CoL , Pollichia 16-17: 120 (1859).

Stems robust, angled, with plane faces, glabrescent, armed with strong, brown, patent to falcate prickles and a few smaller gland-tipped pricklets; young shoots bronze-coloured. Leaflets 3-5, glabrescent on both surfaces; terminal leaflet elliptical to obovate, long-acuminate, rounded or subcordate at base, coarsely and unevenly serrate. Inflorescence elongate, narrow, leafy, the upper leaves grey-tomentose; pedicels shorter than the leaf-like bracts; axis grey-tomentose and with short hairs, a few glands and falcate prickles. Sepals somewhat deflexed at first, the apices sometimes rising as the fruit swells, long-pointed, tomentose, unarmed or with a few acides; petals obovate, emarginate, pink; stamens white or pink-based, exceeding the yellowish or pinkish styles; carpels usually glabrous. 2//= 28. W. & C. Europe. Au Be Br Cz Ga Hb Hu It Lu Rm. Related species include:

R. castranus Samp, ex Coutinho, FI. Port. 298 (1913). Lu.

R. maassii Focke ex Bertram , FI. Braunschw. 75 (1876). Br Cz Ge Ho Rm.

R. mercicus Bagnali , Jour. Bot. (London) 30: 372 (1892). 2/2 = 28. Br Hs.

R. muenteri Marsson , FI. Neu-Vorpommern 144(1869). B eB r Ga Ge Lu Su.

R. nemoralis P. J. Mueller , Flora (Regensb.) 41: 139 (1858). Br D a Ge No.

R. scheutzii Lindeb. ex F. Aresch. , Bot. Not. 1886: 38 (1886). 2/2 = 28. Su.