Rubus sapidus Schltdl.

Rubus sapidus Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 269. 1839
Stems probably perennial, glabrous or villous when young, round-angled, armed with strong retrorse prickles, at length reclining and covering walls and bushes; leaves of the stems 5-foliolate; stipules setaceous, 1 cm. long; petioles, petiolules, and midveins villous and rather densely armed with recurved prickles; leaflets thick, subcoriaceous, dark-green and sparingly pilose but soon glabrate above, densely soft-pubescent beneath, closely and sharply serrate, with the teeth strongly directed forward; terminal leaflet broadly ovate, acuminate, 4-7 cm. long, its petiolule about 2 cm. long; lateral leaflets ovate and subsessile; floral branches 1-3 dm. long; leaves 1-3-foliolate; leaflets similar to those of the stem, but more obovate and merely acute; inflorescence corymbiform, leafy-bracted, densely villous and strongly armed with recurved prickles; sepals about 6 mm. long, mucronate, white-tomentose on both sides; petals white, broadly obovate or orbicular, about 1 cm. long; fruit globose; drupelets about 30; putamen strongly reticulate, 2 mm. long.
Type locality: Thickets of Jalapa, Vera Cruz. Distribution: Vera Cruz.

Rubus amplior Rydberg, sp. nov
Rubus sapidus grandifolius Focke; Donn. Smith, Enum. PI. Gnat. 2: 19; hyponym. 1891. Not R. grandifolius Salisb. 1797.
Stem perennial, terete, purplish, villous-tomentose when young, soon glabrate, armed with numerous, slightly recurved prickles 3-5 mm. long; leaves mostly ternate; stipules subulate, about 5 mm. long; petioles, petiolules, and midveins rather strongly armed with recurved prickles, as well as villous; petioles about 5 cm. long; leaflets ovate, shortacuminate at the apex, rounded or rarely subcordate at the base, serrate, with ovate apiculate teeth, dark-green and sparingly pilose above, coarsely velutinous beneath, 5-10 cm. long; lateral veins 7-10 on each side; inflorescence rather few-flowered, leafy-bracted, villous-tomentose as well as armed with recurved prickles; sepals ovate, apiculate, tomentose on both sides, about 7 mm. long; petals white, elliptic, 10-12 mm. long; fruit dark-purple, globose; drupelets 8-12, large and pulpy; putamen 2.5 mm. long, not strongly reticulate.
Type collected at Santa Rosa, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, September 1888, H. von Tiirckheim 1424 (herb. John Donnell Smith).

Rubus tuerckheimii Rydberg, sp. nov
Stems perennial, apparently reclining over bushes, terete, purple, sparingly pilose or in age glabrous, reddish, armed with small recurved prickles; leaves mostly 3-foliolate; stipules subulate-setaceous, 5-8 mm. long; petioles, petiolules, and midveins pilose and armed with recurved prickles; petioles 5-6 cm. long; leaflets broadly oval, abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, rather regularly serrate, with broad, ovate, apiculate teeth, pilose above, villous-tomentose beneath, 6-10 cm. long; inflorescence many-flowered, villous and armed with small recurved prickles; sepals ovate, apiculate, 5 mm. long, tomentose on both sides; petals elliptic, 7-8 mm. long; fruit unknown.
Type collected at Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, December 1902, H. von Turckheim 8387 (herb. John Donnell Smith),

Rubus sapidus is a Mesoamerican species of brambles in the rose family. It grows in southern Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca) and Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua).

Rubus sapidus is an erect or arching perennial with stems up to 2.5 meters long. Stems are covered with wool and armed with curved prickles. Leaves on the stems are compound with 5 leaflets, leathery with soft hairs on the underside; leaves on flower stalks either are simple (not compound) or compound with 3 leaflets. Flowers are white. Fruits are black and spherical.