Rubus vestitus

Scrambling or trailing, semi-deciduous shrub; stems sometimes arching, 1–1.5 m long, angled, sometimes sulcate, purplish, covered with sparse to dense, fine white pubescence, sometimes with occasional longer glandular hairs; prickles usually unequal, straight or recurved, mainly on the angles, 2–7(–10) mm long. Leaves 3- or 5-foliate; leaflets ovate, broad elliptic or obovate, mostly 4–9 cm long, 3–6.5 cm wide, base cuneate to subcordate, margins sharply toothed, upper surface green, glabrescent, lower surface green to grey-green, sparingly to densely tomentose with relatively dense pilose hairs, particularly on veins; stipules linear, pilose. Flowers in terminal, narrowly cylindric racemes; axis and peduncles covered with dense erect hairs, mixed with some purple glandular hairs, unequal prickles and acicles. Sepals tomentose, sometimes with scattered glandular hairs, usually unarmed, reflexed in fruit; petals broadly ovate, pale pink, fading to white; stamens exceeding styles. Fruiting head more or less globose, c. 10 mm diam.; fruit glabrous or pilose, black, not falling from the receptacle when ripe.