Rubus glomeratus Blume

Climbing, trailing, or scrambling shrubs, up to 3 m high. Stems sparsely to densely hairy with curly hairs never forming a closed felt, and with longer, thicker, straight hairs, glabrate and then dark brown to blackish, prickles usually few, weak. Stipular cataphylls at the base of lateral branches. Leaves broadly ovate, 4-15 by 3.5-13 cm, shallowly 3(-5)-lobed or almost unlobed, base cordate to (upper leaves) truncate, margins serrate, apex acute, coriaceous, nervation pedate with 5-7 pairs of nerves, venation reticulate, upper surface sometimes slightly bullate between nerves and veins, hairy and glabrescent, lower surface with on nerves and veins short, curly hairs that never form a closed felt, and with longer and thicker, straight hairs. Petiole l-5(-7) cm long. Stipules early deciduous, elliptic, 7-20 by 5-10 mm, dentate to pinnatipartite with up to 6 pairs of teeth or lobes, hairy outside. Inflorescence a terminal thyrse with up to 6 lateral cymes of up to 3 flowers, up to 10 cm long, peduncle up to 5(-7) cm. Bracts pinnatipartite. Pedicels up to 5(-10) mm long, hairy as are the other axes. Flowers bisexual, flower buds ovoid, pointed. Hypanthium cupular, 4-7 mm across, densely woolly outside and with long, straight hairs, rarely with short, stalked glands. Sepals triangular, outer ones 6-9 by 4-7 mm, inner ones narrower, apex sharply pointed, not-covered margins with 2-6 teeth of 2-3 ram, covered margins entire, indumentum outside as hypanthium. Petals early deciduous, suborbicular to obovate or obcordate, 4.5-10 by 3-8 mm. apex rounded or emarginate, white, sometimes hairy outside. Stamens 24-120, in New Guinea up to 60, filaments up to 6 mm long, glabrous, rarely hairy, anthers 0.5-1 mm long, glabrous or with 1-5 hairs on the top. Pistils 30-60, ovaries glabrous, on elevated, hairy torus, style up to 6 mm long. Collective fruits globular, up to 8 mm diam., sepals closing after anthesis and staying erect around ripe fruits. Fruits curved, 2-4 mm long when dry, orange-red to red, mesocarp juicy, a thin membranous layer when dry.

A tropical plant. It grows in the mountains. It grows in evergreen forests and grasslands.

The fruit are eaten but they are slightly sour.