Rubus lejeunei, Weihe & Nees

65. R. lejeunei Weihe & Nees View in CoL in Bluff & Fingerli., Comp. FI. Germ. 1: 683 (1825).

Stems robust, long, climbing, obtusely angled, not pruinose, sparsely hairy, with very short glands, and with tubercle-based acides and pricklets; prickles unequal, longbased, tapering, straight or curved. Leaflets 3-5, large, glabrescent above, pubescent or glabrescent beneath; terminal leaflet rather long, obovate, acuminate, subcuneate at base, unevenly serrate or almost biserrate. Inflorescence pyramidal, with numerous paniculate lower branches and a subracemose apex; axis tomentose, with unequal red glands (some longer than the diameter of the rhachis), unequal acides and rather short, subulate pricklets; flowers usually more than 2 cm in diameter. Sepals more or less deflexed after anthesis, tomentose, glandular, aculeolate, greenish, with a narrow, white margin; petals broadly elliptical, glabrous, bright pink; stamens red, pink or white, slightly exceeding the greenish, pink-based styles; receptacle pubescent; carpels glabrous or subglabrous. 2« = 35. W. & C. Europe.?Au Be Br Ga Ge He Hs Hu It Lu Po. Related species include:

R. festivus P. J. Mueller & Wirtgen ex Focke , Syn. Rub. Germ. 314 (1877). Be Br Ge He.