3353.000 Rubus L. - 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.

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
Dysgonia torrida (Jigsaw)
Grammodes bifasciata
Grammodes stolida (Stolid lines)
Rubus niveus

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
apetalus Poir.N,C,S
chapmanianus Kupicha N,S
ellipticus Sm.N,SDescription, Image
iringanus Gust.N
kirungensis Engl.N,C
niveus Thunb.NDescription, Image
pinnatus Willd.
rigidus Sm.N,C,SDescription, Image
rosifolius Sm.C
scheffleri Engl.S

Other sources of information about Rubus:

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Flora of Botswana: Rubus
Flora of Mozambique: Rubus
Flora of Zambia: Rubus
Flora of Zimbabwe: Rubus
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Rubus

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Rubus
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Rubus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Rubus
Wikipedia: Rubus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Rubus
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Rubus

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Malawi: Genus page: Rubus.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=654, retrieved 28 March 2023

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