Rubus pascuus Bailey (1943: 440)

Beek, Abraham Van De, 2021, Rubi Capenses: a further contribution to the knowledge of the genus Rubus (Rosaceae) in South Africa, Phytotaxa 515 (1), pp. 1-71 : 52-54

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scientific name	Rubus pascuus Bailey (1943: 440)
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27. Rubus pascuus Bailey (1943: 440) View in CoL ( Fig. 22A View FIGURE 22 ).

Type:—to be designated

Note: —Some specimens from KwaZulu-Natal are stronger than R. probabilis . They correspond with the North American R. pascuus .

Primocane angular, furrowed, diam. 4–5 mm, slightly hairy, with sessile glands; prickles 8–10 per 5 cm from 1–3 mm base abruptly attenuate, compressed, straight or slightly declining, ± 7 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 15 mm long. Leaves ( Fig. 22B View FIGURE 22 ) 3-foliolate or pedate 5-foliolate, adaxially rather densely hairy, abaxially greyish, tomentose and soft hairy; serrature with triangular straight short pointed teeth; petiole 5–7 cm, with long stellate hairs and 10–15 curved strong prickles; central leaflet 57–70 mm long, broad elliptic, with rounded or subcordate base, rather abruptly attenuate into short tip, sometimes lobate, width–length index 0.62–0.80, length of petiolule 27–43% of length of leaflet. Flowering branch ( Fig. 22C View FIGURE 22 ) short hairy with slightly to strongly curved prickles. Inflorescence ( Fig. 22D View FIGURE 22 ) axillary or subracemose, with 3–5 flowers on ascending peduncles; pedicels ascendant, 8–21 mm long, grey tomentose and hairy, with 2–5 pricklets, without stipitate glands. Flowers: sepals grey, reflexed, short pointed; petals white, obovate; stamens spreading, somewhat longer than styles; anthers glabrous; ovaries glabrous.

Ecology: —Grasslands

Distribution in South Africa: —At some localities in southwestern KwaZulu-Natal.

Specimens:— SOUTH AFRICA. KwaZulu-Natal: January 1939, Leeman s.n. ( PRE) ; Mooirivier, 14 miles on Giants Castle Road, 13 November 1969, Wells 3983 ( PRE) ; Pietermaritzburg, November 1950, Beard 719 ( PRE) ; Underberg, Rosetta, 8 October 1975, Stirton 5175 ( PRE) ; Kokstad, 40 km from Underberg to Swartberg, 9 November 1980, Stirton 8157 ( PRE627503 View Materials ) .