Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Rosales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Rubus L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Rubus parvus Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 6: 243 (1874)
Vernacular Name(s):
Creeping lawyer
 Description

Low-growing shrub; creeping stems up to 1 m long, rooting at nodes, terete, glabrous; armature of small prickles restricted to young stems. Lvs reduced to a single leaflet; leaflet lamina coriaceous, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, (20)–25–90 × 5–22 mm, sometimes with a pair of obscure lobes near base, glabrous on both surfaces or with sparse scattered hairs on midrib, veins and margins, bronze-green on upper surface, paler on lower, sharply serrate-dentate. Infl. a few-flowered panicle or fls solitary. Petals white. Drupelets red.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.–Feb.; Fruiting: Nov.–May.

 Bibliography
Buchanan, J. 1874: On some new species of New Zealand plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 6: 241–244.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]