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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Rubus L.

RUBUS L., 1753

Fls perfect or unisexual, in panicles or racemes, rarely solitary; receptacle broad; sepals 5, persistent; petals 5; stamens ∞; carpels ∞, on convex receptacle. Fr. of aggregated 1-seeded drupelets; seed pend. Scrambling, us. ± prickly shrubs or lianes; lvs us. palmately lobed or compound, stipules adnate to petiole. Cosmopolitan with c. 1000 spp.; the N.Z. spp. endemic.

Key

1
Lvs 1-foliolate, fr. clusters c. 2 cm. long
1. parvus
Lvs 3-5-foliolate, fr. clusters not > 1 cm. long
2
2
Lvs densely tomentose below, ± rugose above, lflts 3
2. schmidelioides
Lvs glabrate below, not rugose above, lflts 5
3
3
Drupelets yellowish, lflts of broadly ovate order
3. australis
Drupelets red to orange, lflts of lanceolate order
4
4
Prickles reddish, panicles 15-60 cm. long, fls white
4. cissoides
Prickles yellowish, panicles 5-15 cm. long, fls yellowish
5. squarrosus
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