Rubus vestitus Weihe & Nees

Semi-erect, scrambling shrub; primocanes arching, dark-purple, sharply angled and ± flat between, with numerous subsessile glands, few long-stalked glands and moderately to densely clothed in mostly stellate hairs; armature of many, stout, erect prickles mostly on angles and usually a few pricklets on faces and angles. Young stems densely hairy and glandular. Leaflets (3)–5, sparsely pilose on upper surface, pilose on veins and tomentose (often densely) between on lower surface, irregularly serrate-dentate; terminal leaflet lamina orbicular to broadly elliptic-obovate, acuminate, 60–90–(110) × 50–80–(110) mm with petiole 1/4–3/7 length of lamina. Stipules linear. Infl. densely hairy, with subsessile and many but not numerous long-stalked glands. Sepals long-attenuate, tomentose and with longer simple hairs, with pricklets. Petals rounded or slightly notched, undulate, pale to deep pink. Anthers glabrous or with 1–2 hairs.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.