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Rubus niveus
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Leopard Rock Game Reserve, Vumba
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Shenstone, Mt Hampden
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Shenstone, Mt Hampden
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Shenstone, Mt Hampden
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Haka game park
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| Status: | Probably introduced | |
| Description: |
Scrambling shrubby perennial, up to 2 m, with sharp slightly recurved prickles. Young stems and branches covered in a white powdery substance, which is mostly lost on older parts. Leaves imparipinnate with 2-3 pairs of leaflets and a terminal leaflet; leaflets elliptic to ovate, shiny green and hairless above, covered in white felt below; margin serrate. Leaflets plicate along the prominent veins; main rhachis and petiole set with small prickles. Flowers in few-flowered pedicels and calyx covered in white hairs; petals shorter than sepals, white, mauve-pink or red. Fruit 8-10 mm in diameter, purple when ripe; carpels pubescent. | |
| Notes: | ||
| Derivation of specific name: | niveus: purest white | |
| Habitat: | In grassland,woodland and bracken scrub, mostly in disturbed areas. | |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1260 - 1890 m | |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Native to India and Malaysia; now a widespread naturalised species in East and southern Africa. | |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | NCE | |
| Growth form: | Cs | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
| Content last updated: | Wednesday 10 January 2007 |
Other sources of information about Rubus niveus:
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Rubus niveus pageBiodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Rubus niveus
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Rubus niveus
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Rubus niveus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Rubus niveus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Rubus niveus
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Rubus niveus
West African Plants database: Rubus niveus
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