Rubus adenotrichos Schltdl.

Rubus adenotrichos Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 267. 1839
Rubus costaricanus longesetosus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 220. 1891.
Stem perennial, up to 6 m. high, densely covered with glandular-tipped reddish setae, also densely short-pilose, and with scattered prickles, which are 3-5 mm. long, strongly curved, flattened and pubescent at the base; leaves digitately 5-foliolate, or the upper 3-foliolate; stipules 5-8 mm. long, subulate or narrowly linear-lanceolate, attenuate; petioles 5-15 cm. long, densely short-pilose and copiously glandular-setose, with rather numerous prickles; terminal leaflet ovate, elliptic, oval, or obovate, acuminate at the apex, subcordate or rounded at the base, sharply and finely double-serrate, 5-10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, sparingly pilose above, densely so beneath, more or less glandular-hispid and prickly on the midvein and the petiolule, which is 2-4 cm. long; lateral leaflets similar, but somewhat smaller, less subcordate at the base and with shorter petiolules; flowers in many-flowered panicles, which are terminal and also lateral in the upper leaf-axils; peduncles, branches, pedicels, and hypanthium densely 451
glandular-hispid and pilose; sepals ovate, abruptly subulate-acuminate, white-pilose and
glandular; petals white or pink, obovate, about 1 cm. long; fruit ovate, red or black when
ripe, about 10-12 mm. thick; drupelets numerous, small, ovate, glabrous; style persistent, terminal.
Type locality: In thickets of Jalapa, Vera Cruz. Distribution: In woods, from central Mexico to Costa Rica.

Rubus adenotrichos is a Mesoamerican species of brambles in the rose family. It grows in Central America, northwestern South America, and central and southern Mexico, from Michoacán and Veracruz south to Ecuador and Venezuela.

Rubus adenotrichos is a shrub up to 6 meters tall, with copious hairs and scattered curved prickles. Leaves are compound with 3 or 5 leaflets. Flowers are white or pink. Fruits are red or black.