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Rubus rosifolius Sm.

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New Zealand
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Sm.
Sm.
1791
rosaefolius
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Rubus rosifolius Sm.
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Rubus rosifolius

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rosifolius

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Rubus rosifolius Sm.

Low-growing, suckering, softly woody shrub; stems terete, hairy and with sessile glands, especially when young, purplish green; armature of flattened, falcate prickles. Lvs usually imparipinnate with 2-3 pairs of leaflets, rarely pinnately 3-foliolate, rugose and with many short hairs and sessile glands on both surfaces, 2-serrate; terminal leaflet lamina ovate-lanceolate, 25-60 × 10-20 mm, acuminate, rounded at base, petiolulate; stipules lanceolate. Infl. a few-flowered, leafy cyme or fls solitary; axis prickly. Fls up to 30 mm diam. Sepals ovate, acuminate, densely hairy, with sessile glands. Petals obovate, flat, white. Stamen filaments white. Fr. of waxy, red drupelets, ± conic, c. 15 mm long.

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Rubus rosifolius Sm.
Rubus rosifolius Sm.

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Rubus rosifolius Sm.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Rubus rosifolius Sm.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District

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76000212-f803-4905-9394-a01964754b60
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1 January 2000
29 January 2016
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