Rubus apiculatus, Weihe & Nees

52. R. apiculatus Weihe & Nees View in CoL in Bluff & Fingerh., Comp. FI. Germ. 1: 680 (1825).

Stems robust, angled, striate, faces plane or slightly sulcate, glaucescent, slightly hairy, with scattered short glands and numerous acides and pricklets, some gland-tipped; prickles unequal, slender, the largest patent or falcate, the more numerous smaller ones papilliform. Leaves large, pedate; leaflets (3-)5, glabrescent above, tomentose and rough beneath with short, patent hairs; terminal leaflet elliptic-obovate, shortly acuminate, often subcuneate and rounded at base. Inflorescence long, leafy, narrowed to the apex, with rather short branches; axis tomentose, with numerous glands and acides and few, fine, sharply deflexed or patent yellowish prickles. Sepals somewhat deflexed or patent after flowering, tomentose, glandular and with a few acides; petals 5-6, ovate, pink; stamens white or pink, about equalling the cream-coloured styles; carpels glabrous or slightly hairy. 2n = 28. W. & C. Europe. Au Be Br Cz Ga Ge Hb HeHoHuLuRm.

Related species include:

R. albicomus Gremii , Beitr. FI. Schweiz 30 (1870). Au Cz Ga He Hu.

R. carinthiacus Halâcsy, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 41: 254 (1891). Au.

R. dasycarpus (Sabr.) Fritsch , Exkursionsfl. Österr. ed. 3, 209 (1922). Au.

R. lumnitzeri (Sabr.) Fritsch, op. cit. 214 (1922). Au.

R. lusitanicus R. P. Murray , Bol. Soc. Brot. 5: 189 (1887). Hs Lu.

R. micansGren. & Godron, Fl. Fr. 1: 546 (1849). Au Br Cz Ga Ge He Hu?Po.

R. perdurus Holuby & Borbâs ex Sabr., Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 42: 21 (1892). Cz.

R. roetensis Waisb., Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 47: 6 (1897). Au Cz Hu.

R. subcanus P. J. Mueller exGenev., Mém. Soc. Acad. (Angers) 28: 45 (1872). Au Cz Ga Ge Hu.

R. supinus Sabr. , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 55: 357 (1905). Au.

R. transmontanus Samp. ex Coutinho, Fl. Port. 302 (1913), non Focke. Lu.

R. verticalis Hormuzaki , Mem. Secf. Sti. (Acad. Romand) ser. 3, 2: 292 (1925). Au.