3353.000 Rubus - Brambles
Description of the genus
Shrubs. Stems prickly, scrambling or trailing. Stipules free or adnate to base of petiole. Leaves 3-foliolate or imparipinnate with 2-3(-4) pairs of leaflets; upper leaves sometimes simple; leaflets serrate. Flowers in many-flowered racemose or paniculate inflorescences at the ends of the branches. Flowers bisexual, usually 5-merous, actinomorphic. Calyx segments 5. Petals 5, sometimes 0. Stamens numerous. Carpels many. Fruit a head of many 1-seeded drupelets. Worldwide: 250 species, cosmopolitan, but mainly northern temperate Malawi: 10 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| apetalus Poir. | N,C,S | |
| chapmanianus Kupicha | N,S | |
| ellipticus Sm. | N,S | Description, Image |
| iringanus Gust. | N | |
| kirungensis Engl. | N,C | |
| niveus Thunb. | N | Description, Image |
| pinnatus Willd. | ||
| rigidus Sm. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| rosifolius Sm. | C | |
| scheffleri Engl. | S |
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