Family: Rosaceae
Rubus parvifolius
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 1197 (1753).
Synonymy: R. triphyllus Thunb., Fl. Jap. 215 (1784).
Common name: Small-leaved raspberry, (pink-flowered) native raspberry, small-leaved bramble.
Description:
Branches relatively slender, pubescent; prickles hooked, 1-2 mm long; leaflets 3 rarely 5, ovate, acute, incised-toothed, green and wrinkled above, white-tomentose below, terminal leaflet 2-4 cm long, the others smaller.
Flowers in short terminal few-flowered panicles or solitary in the axils; sepals acuminate, pubescent, 8-10 mm long; petals shorter, almost orbicular, red.
Fruit globular, red, of rather few large drupes.
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Image source: fig 244g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, figs 416, 417.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: MU, SL, KI, SE. Eastern States. South-east Asia.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: in mid to late summer, Nov. — Feb.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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