Rubus parvifolius
L. Small-leaf BrambleScrambling shrub or trailer; stems to c. 1 m long, finely pubescent to tomentose, glabrescent with age, bearing curved prickles to c. 3 mm long. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 3–5, more or less ovate, mostly 1–4 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, base cuneate, margins sharply and often deeply toothed, upper surface green, wrinkled, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose, main vein hairy; stipules entire or deeply lobed. Flowers in short terminal panicles or single in upper leaf axils. Sepals pubescent, acuminate, reflexed; petals broadly elliptic to suborbicular, pink or red. Fruiting head more or less globose, c. 10 mm diam.; fruit red or orange, falling from receptacle when ripe. Flowers mostly Nov.–Feb.
GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. East Asia. Widespread throughout cooler parts of the State, from near sea-level to the subalps, often scrambling amongst rocks.
Known to hybridise with R. moluccanus var. trilobus. See Rubus ×novus.
Jeanes, J.A.; Jobson, P.C. (1996). Rosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 556–585. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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