Family: Rosaceae
Rubus moluccanus
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 1197 (1753).
Synonymy: R. hillii sensu H. Eichler, Suppl. 168 (1965).
Common name: Wild raspberry, Molucca raspberry.
Description:
Branches and petioles densely tomentose, with small recurved prickles; leaves large, thick, almost circular, with 5-7 short broad finely toothed lobes, deeply wrinkled and subglabrous above, rusty-tomentose below, base cordate.
Inflorescence a compact axillary raceme; flowers large, each subtended by a deeply toothed pink bract; sepals acute, c. 12 mm long; petals as long, pink.
Fruit not recorded.
| Rubus moluccanus
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Image source: fig 244e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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| Rubus moluccanus
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Image source: fig 244e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL. Native to S.E. Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
The closely related R. hillii F. Muell. grows in eastern Australia.
Author:
Not yet available
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