Rubus scandens

Rubus scandens Liebm. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 154. 1853
Stem perennial, high-climbing, often 6 m. high and 2 cm. thick; main stems unarmed, obtusely 5-angled, the floral branches sub terete, densely dark-villous, unarmed; leaves coriaceous, persistent, digitately quinate, rarely ternate, evergreen; stipules setaceous, deciduous; petioles of the main stems 7-8 cm. long, of the branches somewhat shorter, with numerous small prickles, dark-pubescent and with scattered glandular hairs; leaflets long-petioluled, subequal, broadly ovate, short-acuminate, cordate at the base, denticulate with distant sharp teeth, light-green, finely puberulent and at last glabrate above, densely dark-pubescent beneath; petiolule of the middle leaflet on the main stem 6-7 cm. long, those of the lateral leaflets 3-4 cm. long, those on the branches about half as long; panicles terminal and axillary, widely branched, unarmed, densely grayish-tomentose; bracts ovate, grayish-tomentose ; sepals ovate, obtuse, at last reflexed; petals white or pinkish, obovate, slightly exceeding the sepals; fruit small, dark-purple; drupelets 6-20, large, ovate, sparingly pubescent, gradually falling apart separately.
Type locality: Oak woods, in the vicinity of Mirador, Vera Cruz. Distribution: Vera Cruz.