Taxon: Rubus rosifolius Sm.

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• spelling corrected in accordance with Melbourne ICN Art. 60.8 and Rec. 60G

Common names:

• bramble-of-the-Cape   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Mauritius raspberry   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• raspberry-bush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rose-leaf bramble   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• thimbleberry   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• kong xin pao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• javanische Himbeere   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• tokin-ibara   (Source: F JapanOhwi [as R. commersonii]) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• frambueso de Africa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 2:278. 1991)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia; Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed   (fide F Hawaii; F NZeal)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia - Celebes, Irian Jaya, Java, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Islands; Malaysia - Sabah, Sarawak; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [e.], Queensland [s.e.], Victoria [e.]
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu

• naturalized throughout tropics & warm-temperate regions

• cultivated throughout tropics & warm-temperate regions

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Bean, A. R. 1997. A revision of Rubus sect. Idaeobatus (Focke) Focke (Rosaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 4:681.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). [= R. commersonii].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. ["naturalized beyond its native range"].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:278.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). A:242.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zandee, M. & C. Kalkman. 1981. The genus Rubus (Rosaceae) in Malesia. 1. Subgenera Chamaebatus and Idaeobatus. Blumea 27:81.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rubus rosifolius.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rubus rosifolius.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rubus rosifolius.

Synonyms:

• (=) Rubus commersonii Poir.
  
• (=) Rubus coronarius (Sims) Sweet
  
• (=) Rubus eustephanos var. coronarius (Sims) Koidz.
  
• (=) Rubus rosifolius var. coronarius Sims
  

Check other web resources for Rubus rosifolius Sm.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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