Rubus pallidus, Weihe & Nees

57. R. pallidus Weihe & Nees View in CoL in Bluff & Fingerli., Comp. FI. Germ. 1: 682 (1825).

Stems arching, then procumbent, becoming purple, terete near base, angled above, with plane faces, densely hairy and with blackish glands; prickles very short, unequal, broad-based and mostly deflexed. Leaves pedate; leaflets 3-5, pale green and hairy above, green and glabrescent beneath; terminal leaflet ovate-elliptical, sometimes long-acuminate, cordate, serrate. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal-truncate, leafy below and sometimes to the apex, the middle branches long, patent; axis hairy, finely glandular, with few, weak, deflexed, pale prickles. Sepals narrow, deflexed after flowering but rising in fruit, purplish-greenish-grey tomentose, glandular and aculeolate; petals ovate or elliptical, white or sometimes pinkish; stamens white, variable in length; receptacle pubescent; carpels glabrous. 2zi = 28. N.W. & C. Europe. Au Be Br Cz D a Ga Ge He Ho Hu Po. Very variable; several subspecies and varieties have been described. Related species include: R. bloxamii Lees in Steele, Handb. Field Bot. 55 (1847). 2« = 28. Be Br D a Ga Ge Hu. According to Watson, R. multifidus Boulay & Malbr. is synonymous with this species, but Sudre makes R. multifidus a subspecies of 59.

R. hirsutus Wirtgen , Prodr. FI. Preuss. Rheinl. 61 (1842), non Thunb. Au Be Br Cz Ge He.

R. macrocalyx Haläcsy , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 40: 433 (1890). Au.

R. microstachys Boulay , Ronces Vosg. 92 (1868). Au G a Ge.