Rubus fuscater, Weihe & Nees

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

Stems obtusely angled, deep purple-black, glaucous, densely hairy, with numerous unequal glands, pricklets and subulate prickles. Leaflets 3-5, deep green and glabrescent above, yellowish-green and pubescent beneath; terminal leaflet ovate or suborbicular,about twice as long as its petiolule, acute, cordate, unevenly and rather shallowly serrate-dentate. Inflorescence short, leafy at base; pedicels long; axis densely hairy, with many unequal purplish glands rarely longer than the diameter of the axis; prickles numerous, strong, straight or falcate; bracts lanceolate; flowers usually more than 2 cm in diameter. Sepals patent or almost appressed to fruit, shortly pointed, green, tomentose, white-margined, glandular and aculeolate; petals broad, ovate,

fimbriate, deep pink or purple; stamens deep pink, rather short, remaining erect and coloured after petal-fall; styles greenish or deep pink; receptacle and carpels hairy. 2/7 = 28. N.W. & C. Europe. Au Be Br Cz Ga Ge He Ho Hu. Related species include:

R. adornatus P. J. Mueller ex Wirtgen , Flora(Regensb.) 42: 234 (1859). 2/7 = 28. Au Be Br Cz Ga Ge He Ho.

R. hartmanii Gand. ex Sudre, Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. Bot. (Le Mans) 15: 229 (1905) ( R. horridus Hartm an, non C. F. Schultz). 2/i=35. Br Su.

R. oigocladus P. J. Mueller & Lefèvre, Pollichia 16-17: 134 (1859). Br Ga Ge He.