Rubus cissburiensis
W.C.Barton & Ridd. BlackberrySemi-erect or trailing shrub; stems 1–4 m long, angular, glabrescent to moderately pubescent; prickles more or less equal, straight to falcate, subulate, to c. 6 mm long. Leaves 3–5-foliolate; leaflets obovate to suborbicular, mostly 3–8 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, cuspidate, base cuneate to subcordate, margins sharply toothed, upper surface green, glabrescent, lower surface usually grey-tomentose and thinly pilose; stipules linear, pilose. Flowers in long, terminal, pyramidal racemes; axis and peduncles tomentose or pubescent, with some stalked glands to c. 1 mm long. Sepals grey-tomentose and pubescent, appendiculate, reflexed in fruit; petals elliptic-obovate, pink. Stamens exceeding styles. Fruiting head more or less globose, c. 10 mm diam.; fruit glabrescent, black, not falling from receptacle when ripe. Flowers summer.
GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Apparently endemic to Britain (Evans et al. 2007). In Victoria, known from a few collections in the Grampians, Malmsbury, Shelley, and the Eildon, Otways and Morwell areas. Grows mainly in moist riparian habitats.
Jeanes, J.A.; Jobson, P.C. (1996). Rosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 556–585. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
SpinningEvans, J.K.; Symon, D.E.; Whalen, M.A.; Hosking, J.R.; Barker, R.M.; Oliver, J.A. (2007). Systematics of the Rubus fruticosus aggregate (Rosaceae) and oher exotic Rubus taxa in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 20: 187–251.
