Rubus copelandii Merr.

Climbing or sprawling shrubs. Stems up to 4 m, with spine-like capitate hairs, otherwise glabrous, prickles many, up to 5 mm, straight to curved. Leaves 3-foliolate, in the inflorescence and at the base of laterals often simple and lobed, petiole 2.5-6.5 cm long. Stipules ovate to oblong, 7-15 by 2-7 mm, entire or with some teeth, with capitate hairs. Leaflets ovate, terminal ones 4-10 by 3-7 cm, lateral ones slighdy smaller, base ± rounded, margin (bi)serrate, apex acute to acuminate, herbaceous, 9-12 pairs of nerves, upper surface shortly hairy on main nerves and with long appressed hairs between them, lower surface glabrous. Inflorescences lax, up to 3 dichasia of up to 5 flowers under the terminal flower. Bracts stipule-like or 3-partite. Pedicels up to 6 cm long, with curved prickles and capitate spines. Hypanthium c. 5 mm across, glabrous outside but with straight prickles and capitate spines. Sepals triangular to ovate, 7-11 by 3-5 mm, entire, acuminate, indumentum outside as hypanthium and the covered parts woolly. Petals broadly elliptic to obovate, 9-12 by 7-9 mm, early falling, rounded, sometimes ciliolate, white. Stamens 80-100, filaments up to 5 mm, anthers c. 1 mm long. Pistils over 100, ovaries glabrous, on elevated, glabrous torus, style up to 2 mm long. Collective fruits ovoid, up to 2 by 1 cm, sepals spreading. Fruits up to 2 by 1.5 mm, dark red, mesocarp a thin membranous layer when dry.

A tropical plant. It grows in thickets in limestone formation at about 1300 m elevation. They occur only in Benguet, Mountain Province in the Philippines. It grows at the edges of forests between 1,700-2,450 m above sea level.

The berries are eaten raw.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.