Rubus erythrops Edees & A.Newton

Robust, scrambling shrub; primocanes arching, purplish, angled and flat to slightly concave between, with few subsessile and numerous long-stalked glandular hairs and sparsely to moderately clothed in mostly simple hairs; armature of many, stout, erect to slightly deflexed prickles mostly on angles, and numerous pricklets on faces and angles. Young stems hairy and glandular. Leaflets (3)–5, sparsely pilose on upper surface, sparsely to moderately pilose (especially on veins) but not tomentose on lower surface, 1–2-serrate and sometimes lobed; terminal leaflet lamina ovate to almost orbicular, acuminate, 65–140 × 50–110 mm, with petiolule 1/4-⅓ length of lamina. Stipules linear to narrow-lanceolate. Infl. densely hairy, with subsessile and numerous long-stalked glands. Sepals long-attenuate, tomentose and with longer simple hairs, with pricklets. Petals rounded at apex, smooth, pink. Anthers glabrous.

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

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.