Rubus laciniatus

Erect or sprawling, semi-deciduous, much-branched shrub; stems angular, glabrous or sparsely pilose, bearing many falcate prickles to c. 6 mm long. Leaves mostly 5-foliolate, occasionally 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, mostly 2–6 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, base cuneate to decurrent, margins toothed or deeply and irregularly cut into narrow lobes, upper surface green, glabrescent, lower surface green, sparsely pilose or tomentose; stipules entire or deeply lobed. Flowers in terminal leafy panicles. Sepals pilose and tomentose, laciniate, armed with prickles; petals more or less elliptic, often trifid at apex, white or pink. Fruiting head obloid to globose, to c. 10 mm diam.; fruit black, remaining on receptacle when ripe. Flowers Nov.–Feb.