Rubus tuberculatus Bab.

Semi-erect, scrambling shrub; primocanes arching, purplish, sub-terete to slightly angled, with many, subsessile and long-stalked glandular hairs, otherwise sparsely clothed in stellate hairs; armature of numerous, rather soft, erect prickles on angles and faces, and numerous pricklets on faces and angles. Young stems moderately hairy and glandular. Leaflets 3–5, sparsely to moderately pilose on upper surface, moderately to densely pilose especially on veins but lacking tomentum on lower surface, serrate-dentate; terminal leaflet lamina elliptic to obovate, acuminate, up to 90 × 60 mm, with petiolule c. 1/4 length of lamina. Stipules lanceolate to elliptic and somewhat leafy. Sepals tomentose. Petals shortly notched, crinkled, pink-flushed.

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

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.