Rubus tephrodes Hance

Shrubs scandent, to 3–4 m tall. Branchlets brown or purplish brown, densely gray tomentose, with sparse, curved prickles, ± with unequal long glandular hairs and bristles 1–3(–5) mm or without bristles. Leaves simple; petiole 1–3 cm, tomentose, with sparse, minute prickles or glandular hairs, bristly; stipules caducous, free, 5–8 mm, margin laciniate or pectinately parted, tomentose-villous; blade suborbicular, 5–11 × 5–10 cm, palmately 5-veined, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, abaxially densely gray tomentose, with sparse, small prickles and bristles along midvein, adaxially pilose or with sparse, glandular hairs, base cordate, margin 5–7-lobed, irregularly serrate, apex acute or obtuse. Inflorescences terminal, cymose panicles, 10–16 cm, many flowered; rachis and pedicels tomentose-villous, with sparse, glandular hairs and bristles; bracts 5–7 mm, pectinately lobed; lobes linear, tomentose-villous. Pedicel 4–10 mm. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam. Calyx densely gray tomentose, usually without glandular hairs and bristles; sepals ovate, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, margin entire, apex acute. Petals white, suborbicular to oblong, slightly shorter or nearly as long as sepals, pilose, base shortly clawed. Stamens many, ca. as long as petals; filaments slightly broadened toward base. Pistils 30–50, longer than stamens; style and ovary glabrous. Aggregate fruit purplish black, globose, 1–1.5 cm in diam., glabrous, with many drupelets; pyrenes rugose. Fl. Jun–Aug, fr. Aug–Oct. 2n = 28*.

Mountainous regions and summits, foothills, slopes, roadsides, thickets, montane valleys; at elevations up to 1,500 metres.

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