Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Rubus
167. Rubus hanceanus Kuntze; Meth. Sp.-Beschr. Rubus. 72. 1879.
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Rubus fordii Hance; R. hirtiflorus Cardot; R. prandianus Handel-Mazzetti.
Shrubs lianoid or scandent; ca. 1 m tall. Branchlets brown or reddish brown; terete; densely gray tomentose; glabrescent; with sparse; curved minute prickles or stipitate glands. Leaves simple; petiole 1–2 cm; gray tomentose at first; gradually glabrescent; with sparse; minute prickles; stipules early caducous; free; oblong or elliptic; villous; stipitate glandular; margin entire or apically laciniate; blade broadly ovate; 6–11 x 4–8 cm; veins 5–7 pairs; prominent abaxially; somewhat impressed adaxially; not leathery; abaxially densely gray or yellowish gray tomentose; adaxially dark brown; glabrous except soft hairy along veins; base cordate; margin lobed; unevenly sharply serrate; apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal; racemes; 6–9 cm; loosely few flowered; rachis and pedicels tomentose-villous; with stipitate glands 2–4 mm and sparse; needle-like prickles; bracts caducous; oblong or elliptic; 5–8 mm; membranous; villous; with sparse; intermixed stipitate glandular hairs; margin entire or apically lobed. Pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm. Flowers 1–1.5 cm in diam. Calyx abaxially densely tomentose-villous; with purplish brown long stalked glands and needle-like prickles; sepals erect; rarely reflexed in fruit; broadly ovate; 1–1.2 cm x 4–6 mm; margin entire; apex caudate. Petals broadly elliptic; 8–11 x 5–7 mm; soft hairy; base shortly clawed; apex obtuse. Stamens many; shorter than petals; filaments short; broad; complanate; anthers slightly villous. Pistils much longer than stamens; style and ovary glabrous. Aggregate fruit black; subglobose; 1–1.5 cm in diam.; glabrous; drupelets subreniform or semiglobose; pyrenes somewhat rugose. Fl. Mar–May; fr. Jun–Jul.
Sparse mixed forests in valleys; bamboo thickets; shaded rocky places; Low elevations. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Hunan.