Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Rubus
199. Rubus fragarioides Bertoloni; Mém. Reale Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna. 12: 236. 1861.
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Herbs low; 6–16 cm tall. Stems greenish brown or brownish; woody; soft hairy. Leaves compound; 5- or 3-foliolate; petiole 3–9 cm; slightly soft hairy; leaflets very shortly petiolulate or subsessile; stipules free; ovate or elliptic; 7–10 x 5–7 mm; apex acute or ± obtuse; blade of leaflets obovate to suborbicular; 2–5 x 1.5–3.5 cm; glabrous or soft hairy; base cuneate; margin usually lobed; incised or coarsely sharply serrate or doubly serrate; apex acute or obtuse. Inflorescences usually terminal; 1–2 cm in diam.; flowering branchlets and pedicels soft hairy. Pedicel 1–3(–5) cm. Calyx abaxially glabrous or soft hairy; tube shallowly cupular; sepals ovate-lanceolate; 6–10 x 2–4 mm; margin entire; apex long acuminate to caudate. Petals white; obovate; 0.8–1.2 cm x 5–6 mm; apex acute. Stamens many; erect; unequal in length; shorter than petals; filaments dilated in basal part. Pistils 4–6; shorter than stamens; ovary usually glabrous. Aggregate fruit 7–9 mm in diam.; with several drupelets; persistent calyx lobes erect; drupelets to 4 mm; pyrenes rugose. Fl. May–Jul; fr. Jul–Sep.
High mountains; grasslands; slopes; forests; forest margins; 3000--4200 m. W Sichuan; Xizang; NW Yunnan [Bhutan; NE India; N. Myanmar; Nepal; Sikkim].