Rubus verae-crucis Rydb.

Rubus verae-crucis Rydberg, sp. nov
Stem perennial, 5-7 mm. high, erect, terete, densely covered by a grayish tomentum and short glandular hairs, in age sometimes glabrous, armed with a few short recurved prickles; leaves 5-foliolate or on the floral branches 3-foliolate; stipules subulate, about 5 mm. long; petioles, petiolules, and midribs rusty-tomentose, prickly, and somewhat glandular; petioles 6-8 cm. long; leaflets lanceolate, abruptly long-acuminate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, 5-10 cm. long, dark-green and sparingly pilose or glabrate above, nearly glabrous beneath, except the veins; petiolule of the terminal leaflet 3-5 cm. long, those of the lateral ones 1-3 cm. long; inflorescence many-flowered, racemiform; peduncles and pedicel tomentose and with short glandular hairs; sepals ovate, tomentose on both sides, 5 mm. long, acute or apiculate; petals white, obovate, about 1 cm. long.
Type collected at San Miguel del Soldado, Vera Cruz, April 20, 1899, Pringle 8177 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Vera Cruz.

Rubus verae-crucis is a Mexican species of brambles in the rose family. It has been found only in the States of Oaxaca and Veracruz in Mexico.

Rubus verae-crucis is an erect perennial with gray wool and a few scattered curved prickles. Leaves are compound with 3 or 5 leaflets. Flowers are white.