Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Rubus
9. Rubus adenophorus Rolfe; Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew. 1910: 382. 1910.
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Rubus sagatus Focke.
Shrubs scandent; 0.5–2 m tall. Branchlets brownish to brownish red; villous; with intermixed stalked purple glands and sparse; basally broadened and flattened prickles. Leaves imparipinnate; often 3-foliolate; petiole 5–8 cm; petiolule of terminal leaflet 2.5–4 cm; lateral leaflets subsessile; petiolule and rachis villous; with glandular hairs; sparsely prickly; stipules linear-lanceolate; 0.9–1.4 cm; villous; with sparse; stalked glands; blade of leaflets ovate to broadly ovate; 4–11 x 2–8 cm; both surfaces sparsely villous; abaxially with few stalked glands along veins; base rounded to subcordate; margin coarsely sharp doubly serrate; apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary; subracemes; 8–20(–25) cm; rachis; pedicels; and bracts yellow villous; with intermixed stalked purple glands; bracts lanceolate; 0.8–1.2 cm. Pedicel 6–9 mm. Flowers 6–8 mm in diam. Calyx abaxially with long yellow hairs and stipitate purple glands; sepals usually erect after anthesis; lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; 6–9 x 2.5–5 mm; apex acuminate. Petals purple; obovate or suborbicular; 5–8 x 5–7 mm; glabrous; base long clawed; margin premorse or dentate. Stamens many; nearly as long as petals; filaments linear. Pistils numerous; slightly shorter than stamens; styles glabrous or pilose at base; apex of ovary pilose when young. Aggregate fruit red; globose; 8–10 mm in diam.; glabrous or slightly pilose; pyrenes distinctly rugose. Fl. Apr–Jun; fr. Jul–Aug.
Mountainous regions; valleys; sparse forests; forest margins; thickets. Low to medium elevations. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Zhejiang.