Rubus scheffleri Engl.

A scrambling shrub, 3–5 m. tall.. Flowering branches reddish, fulvous-pilose and sometimes thickly so above, glabrescent and pruinose (? always) below; prickles numerous, ± stout, hooked, glabrous, up to 5 mm. long.. Leaves imparipinnate (2–3-jugate) or the upper ones trifoliolate; terminal leaflets broadly ovate, up to 6.5 × 3.6 cm., the lateral ones rather smaller and narrower, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4.5–6 × 2.3–3.2 cm.; all acute or acuminate, basally rounded, sharply and irregularly serrate, the nerves often markedly excurrent, green on both surfaces but paler below, glabrous or with pubescent midrib and nerves on either or both surfaces and sometimes with scattered, ± appressed hairs on the lamina above; lateral nerves straight or arcuate.. Inflorescence usually a rather restricted, largely or wholly leafless, cylindrical panicle, but sometimes more diffuse, commonly up to 17 × 5 cm., the peduncles and pedicels usually spreading at an angle of 90° or a little deflexed; flowers solitary or in pairs; the branchlets, peduncles (if present) and pedicels grey-green-tomentose and usually very aculeolate.. Calyx tomentose, often purplish on the outside, becoming marginally greener, 9–10(–15) mm. long, deeply divided into oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate caudate-acuminate lobes 7–8 mm. long, which spread or reflex after maturity.. Petals white, “turning magenta,” obovate or obovate-elliptic, 6.5–8 × (4–) 6–6.5 mm., notched or entire.. Fruit tomentose, often densely so, orange-red or black (? when mature), edible.

It is a tropical plant. It grows at the edges of forests.