Rubus calycinus
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Description
Leaves reniform, 3-6.5 by 3.5-7 cm, usually shallowly 3-5(-7)-lobecl, base deeply cordate, margin serrate, apex rounded, rather stiff and brittle when dry, nervation pedate with 2-3(-4) pairs of main side-nerves, vena ion reticulate, upper surface with short patent hairs on the nerves and with small prickles between the veins, lower surface with long patent hairs and with needle-shaped, 2.5 mm long prickles on nerves and veins below.
Stipules ovate, 9-15 by 6-12 mm, base cordate to rounded, margin finely fimbriate.
Flowers solitary, terminal on the laterals, up to 2 cm long stalked, rarely also one flower in the uppermost (reduced) leaf.
Sepals elliptic to ovate, sometimes cordate, 11-16 by 5-13 mm, in fruit growing to 20 by 15 mm, exposed margins pin-nately lobed with up to 14 lobes, indumentum outside as hypanthium.
Petals elliptic to ovate, 10-11 by 5-7 mm, white.
Stamens 30-40, glabrous, filaments up to 6 mm, anthers 0.8-1 mm long.
Fruits orange to red, mesocarp fleshy, only a thin layer when dry, stone 3-4 mm long, endocarp rugulose.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: East Himalaya (Arunachal Pradesh present), E Java present, Himalaya region present, N Burma present, NE India present, Nepal present, S China present
Himalaya region from Nepal to Arunachal Pradesh, NE India, N Burma, S China; Malesia: only E Java.