Rubus koehleri, Weihe & Nees

68. R. koehleri Weihe & Nees View in CoL in Bluff & Fingerh., Comp. FI. Germ. 1: 681 (1825).

Stems angled, glaucescent, hairy or glabrescent, with numerous glands, acides (some gland-tipped) and pricklets; prickles very unequal and numerous, yellowish, some very long, patent and straight or slightly falcate. Leaflets 5, tough, glabrescent above, pubescent beneath; terminal leaflet elliptic-obovate, acuminate, subcordate to entire at base, coarsely and very unevenly dentate to finely serrate-dentate. Inflorescence rather long and narrow, more or less cylindrical, with or without some simple leaves; axis more or less hairy, with prickles like those of the stem, and some of the glands longer than the diameter of the axis; upper branches 1- to 3-flowered, patent, the lower more erect; flowers usually more than 2 cm in diameter. Sepals somewhat deflexed to patent after flowering, sometimes appressed to fruit in the terminal flowers, green, tomentose, glandular and aculeolate, appendiculate; petals ovate-elliptical, attenuate below, white or pale pink; stamens white, shorter than or much exceeding the greenish styles; receptacle and carpels glabrous, or the carpels slightly pubescent. 2« = 28. W. & C. Europe. Au Be Br Cz Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hu It Ju Lu Po Rm. Very variable. Related species include:

R. apricus Wimmer , FI. Schles. ed. 3, 626 (1857). 2/7 = 28. Au Be Br Cz Ga Ge Hu Po Rs (W).

R. bavaricus (Focke) Sudre , Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. Bot. (Le Mans) 15: 229 (1905). Au Cz Ge He Hu.

R. caroli G. Beck , Fl. Nieder-Österr. 2(1): 738 (1892). Au.

R. dasyphyllus (Rogers) Rogers , Jour. Bot. (London) 38: 496 (1900). 2« = 28. Br Da Ga Hb.

R. doranus Sudre, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 51: 23 (1904). Ga Hu.

R. gerezianus Samp, ex Coutinho, FI. Port. 301 (1913). Lu.

R. hamatulus (Sabr.) Hayek, Fl. Steierm. 1: 805 (1909). Au.

R. hebecarpos P. J. Mueller, Bonplandia 9: 282 (1861) ( R. hebeticarpos P. J. Mueller ). Br Cz He Ho Hu Lu Po Rm.

R. impolitus Sudre , FI. Toulous. 75 (1907). Au Cz Ga Ge.

R. perneggensis (Hayek) Fritsch, Exkursionsfl. Österr. ed. 3, 218 (1922). Au.

R. proximus Sudre , Rubi Eur. 186 (1912). Au.

R. pygmaeopsis Focke, Syn. Rub. Germ. 364 (1877). Au Be Br Cz Ge.

R. pygmaeus Weihe & Nees in Bluff & Fingerli., Comp. FI. Germ. 1: 687 (1825). AuCz Ge.

R. spinulatus Boulay , Ronces Vosg. 101 (1868). Au Br Cz Ga He.

R. spissifolius Sudre, Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. Bot. (Le Mans) 12: 69 (1903). Ga Ge Hu.

R. subpygmaeopsis Spribille, Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 49: 195 (1908). Au Ge Hu.

R. vagabundus Samp. , Ann. Sci. Nat. (Porto) 9: 69 (1905). Lu.

R. vastus (Sabr.) Hayek, FI. Steierm. 1: 796 (1909). Au.

R. vestitifolius Fritsch ex Halâcsy, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 41: 252 (1891). Au.