Rubus thyrsiflorus, Weihe & Nees

56. R. thyrsiflorus Weihe & Nees View in CoL in Bluff & Fingerli., Comp. FI. Germ. 1: 684 (1825).

Stems procumbent, robust, terete, or angled with plane or slightly concave faces, glaucescent, glabrous or sparsely hairy, with a few glands and numerous, unequal, very short, deflexed and falcate prickles. Leaflets 3-5, large, imbricate, glabrescent above, shortly hairy beneath; terminal leaflet 4 times as long as its petiolule, suborbicular, acuminate, subcordate, serrate-dentate. Inflorescence long, dense-flowered and tapering, with several simple leaves and usually many, erecto-patent, 1- to 3-flowered branches in the upper part, the 2-3 lower branches with flowers in panicles; axis tomentose and hirsute, with acides and sunken glands; prickles short. Sepals often 6, rising after anthesis, with linear apices, tomentose and glandular; petals often 6, white, elliptical, emarginate; stamens white, about equalling or slightly exceeding the green or reddish styles; receptacle pubescent; carpels usually glabrous. 2« = 28. N. W. & C. Europe. Au Be BrCzGaGeHeHuJuRm. Related species include: R. begoniifolius Holuby , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 25: 315 (1875). AlCz.

R. chloranthus (Sabr.) Fritsch , Exkursionsfl. Österr. ed. 3, 213 (1922). Au Hu.

R. prionatus Sudre, Compt. Rend. Congr. Soc. Sav. (Sci.) 1908: 214 (1909). Au Ga Ge.

R. stylosus Sabr. in Hayek, Fl. Steierm. 1: 801 (1909) pro var. Au Ge.