Rubus phoenicolasius

Erect shrub; stems 2–3 m long, densely covered with reddish glandular bristles and sparse slender prickles to c. 3 mm long. Leaves 3-foliolate; terminal leaflet distinctly larger than laterals, broad-ovate, mostly 3–12 cm long, 3–10 cm wide, base more or less cordate, margins dentate, upper surface green, wrinkled, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose, main vein glandular-hairy; stipules entire or deeply lobed. Flowers in a short terminal raceme. Sepals glandular-hairy, acuminate, enclosing the young fruiting head; petals broadly elliptic, incurved, rose-pink. Fruiting head ovoid, c. 20 mm diam.; fruit red, falling from receptacle when ripe, sweet. Flowers summer.