Rubus sprengelii, Weihe

23. R. sprengelii Weihe View in CoL , Flora (Regensb.) 2: 17 (1819)

( R. borreri Bell Salter ).

Stems terete, hairy, occasionally with a few pricklets and stalked glands; prickles slender, falcate or subuncinate. Leaflets 3-5, usually hairy beneath; terminal leaflet ovate, obovate or elliptical, acuminate, unevenly and sharply biserrate, entire at base. Inflorescence short, sub-corymbose, lax, with a hairy axis and patent branches and pedicels bearing small hooked prickles. Sepals more or less appressed to fruit, appendiculate, grey-tomentose and pubescent, sometimes slightly glandular or aciculate; petals crumpled, narrowly obovate-oblong, bright pink; stamens pink, about equalling the pink styles; carpels and receptacle hairy. Fruit rather small. In = 28. N.C. Europe, extending to S. Sweden and Ireland. Be Br Cz Da Ga Ge Hb Ho Hu Po Su. Related species include: R. drejeri G. Jensen in Lange, Icon. Pl. FI. Dan. 51: 7 (1883). Da.

R. euchloos Focke in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. FI. 6(1): 470 (1902) ( R. orthoclados A. Ley, non Boulay).?Be Br Cz Hu. Watson equates this species with R. bracteosus Weihe ex Lej. & Court.

R. hemistemon P. J. Mueller ex Genev., Mém. Soc. Acad. (Angers) 24: 314 (1868). Cz Ga Ge He.