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.

	Rubus parvifolius
Image source: fig 244g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, figs 416, 417.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, SL, KI, SE.   Eastern States.   South-east Asia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in mid to late summer, Nov. — Feb.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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