Rubus australis G.Forst.

Juvenile plants creeping over forest floor, rooting at intervals; branchlets slender, pubescent, us. with ∞ slender prickles; lvs ternate to quinate; lflts thin, glabrate, ovate to ovate-oblong, acute to obtuse, acutely serrate; lamina c. 1-3 × 1-2 cm., with petiolule up to 5 cm. long, finer veins distinct. Adult plants dioec. lianes with stout main stems, up to 10 m. or more long; lvs ternate to quinate; lflts elliptic to ovate or suborbicular, coriac., glab. except on main veins, acute to obtuse, rounded to oblique at base; lamina 3-5 × 1-3·5 cm., with petiole 2-5 cm. long, finer venation distinct to indistinct. Fls distant on pedicels c. 1 cm. long, in panicles or occ. racemes up to 2 dm. long. Sepals 2-4 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, pubescent; petals 5, white, broad-ovate, c. 3-6 mm. long; frs c. 9 mm. diam., of ∞ drupelets, flesh yellowish, achenes c. 3-4 mm. long.

Lowland to montane forest. Forest fringes. When growing in an open sunny position it forms a flowerless and leafless plant. Usually in forest but also found in scrub, and often on the margins of, or within wetlands.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.