. Here is the key for genus Rubus from Flora Simlensis as per efi thread : Flowers white Leaves simple, lobed…………..R. paniculatus Smith Leaves compound Lower surface of leaflets green, glabrous……….R. macilentus Camb. Lower surface of leaflets gray- or white-tomentose Stem and branches shaggy, with long tawny bristles…..R. ellipticus Smith Stem and branches glabrous, covered with white bloom………R. biflorus Flowers Pink, leaves compound Leaflets 3, rarely 5; calyx lobes long pointed; druplets pink…….R. niveus Wall (now correctly known as R. pedunculosus D. Don) Leaflets 5-11, calyx lobes acute; drupelets black……..R. lasiocarpus Smith (now correctly known as R. niveus Thunb.) . Flowers Pink or red: Leaflets 3. Large rambling shrubs: flowers solitary or in pairs … Rubus foliolosus D. Don (synonym for Rubus niveus Thunb.) Low procumbent shrubs; flowers in short terminal racemes … Rubus foliolosus var. racemosus (Hook.f.) B.D. Naithani (synonym for Rubus niveus Thunb.) Leaflets 5-7, upper sometimes with 3 leaflets … Rubus niveus Thun. . Rubus acuminatus Sm. (Himalaya (Kumaun to Bhutan), Assam, Indo-China, W. China as per Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal)
Rubus assamensis Focke (China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, NE-India, NE-Burma (Chin, Kachin), Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus biflorus Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. (Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), Tibet, W. China as per Checklist of Nepal)
Rubus calycinus Wall. ex D.Don (China (Sichuan, Yunnan), S-Tibet, Bhutan, NE-India, Indonesia (Java), N-Burma (Kachin), Nepal, Sikkim as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus creticus Tourn. ex L. (E. Medit. to Turkmenistan and W. Himalaya: Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, West Himalaya, Yugoslavia as per POWO)
Rubus ellipticus Sm. (China (Sichuan, Yunnan), S-Tibet, N-India (Kumaon, Assam, etc.), S-India (Nilgiri Hills), Indonesia (I), Laos, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Mandalay, Sagaing), Nepal, Pakistan (Swat, Hazara, Murree), Philippines (Luzon), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Assam, Java (I), Australia (I) (Queensland (I), New South Wales (I)), Costa Rica (I), Jamaica (I), Ecuador (I), trop. Africa (I) as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus griffithii Hook.f. (Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Assam, Duars as per Catalogue of Life)   Rubus hexagynus Roxb. (N-India, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin) as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus hoffmeisterianus Kunth & C. D. Bouché, C. S. Kunth (Afghanistan (Kunar / Nuristan, Laghman, Parwan), Pakistan (Kurram, Chitral, Swat), Jammu & Kashmir, N-India, Nepal as per Catalogue of Life)
(China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), Taiwan, Vietnam, Bhutan, Sikkim, India (Darjeeling), Nepal as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus lineatus Reinw. (Nepal to S. Central China and W. & S. Malesia: Assam, Borneo, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Tibet, Vietnam as per POWO)
Rubus macilentus Jacquem. ex Cambess. (China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Bhutan, N-India, Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), Pakistan (Swat, Hazara, Murree), Nepal, Sikkim, Laos as per Catalogue of Life)
Flowers Pink or red: Leaflets 3. Large rambling shrubs: flowers solitary or in pairs … Rubus foliolosus D. Don (synonym for Rubus niveus Thunb.) Low procumbent shrubs; flowers in short terminal racemes … Rubus foliolosus var. racemosus (Hook.f.) B.D. Naithani (synonym for Rubus niveus Thunb.) Leaflets 5-7, upper sometimes with 3 leaflets … Rubus niveus Thun.) (China (Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), Taiwan, Tibet, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan (Kunar / Nuristan), Pakistan (Kurram, Dir, Chitral, Swat, Hazara, Murree), Pakistani Kashmir (Gilgit, Baltistan), Bhutan, Sikkim, India, Indonesia, Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Costa Rica (I), South Africa (I), Swaziland (I), Dominican Republic (I), Cuba (I), Nicaragua (I), Ecuador (I), Guatemala (I), Honduras (I), El Salvador (I), Panama (I), Bolivia (I), trop. Africa (I), peninsular Malaysia (I) (Fraser’s Hill (I), Pahan (I)), Hawaii (I) (Kauai (I) (Waimea Canyon (I)), East Maui (I) (Kula (I)), Hawaii Isl. (I) (Volcano transfer dump (I), N Kona (I), and western part) (I)), Myanmar [Burma] (Chin, Kachin, Mandalay), USA (I) (Florida (I)), Zambia (I), Zimbabwe (I), Trinidad & Tobago (I) as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus paniculatus Sm. (China (Yunnan), Tibet, Bhutan, N-India, Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), Pakistan (Pakistani Punjab), Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Thailand, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin), Darjeeling as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus pedunculosus D. Don (China (W-Yunnan), SE-Tibet, Bhutan, NW-India, Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Pakistan (Pakistani Punjab), Nepal, Sikkim, Myanmar [Burma] (Chin) as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus rosifolius Sm. (China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Cambodia, NE-India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin), Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Negros, Mindanao), Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, South Africa (I), Jamaica (I), Puerto Rico (I), Nicaragua (I), Cuba (I), Dominican Republic (I), Lesser Antilles (I) (St. Kitts (I), Montserrat (I), Guadeloupe (I), Dominica (I), Martinique (I), St. Lucia (I), St. Vincent (I), Grenada (I)), Trinidad (I), Brazil (I), Venezuela (I), Mexico (I), New Caledonia (I), Madagascar (I), Costa Rica (I), Colombia (I), Australia (I) (Queensland (I), New South Wales (I), Victoria (I)), Peru (I), Argentina (I), Guatemala (I), El Salvador (I), Bolivia (I), Nicaragua (I), Panama (I), Seychelles (I), Austral Isl. (I) (Rapa Iti (I)), Society Isl. (I) (Tahiti (I), Moorea (I), Raiatea (I)), Mauritius (I), La Runion (I), Rodrigues (I), Hawaii (I) (Kauai (I), Oahu (I), Molokai (I), Lanai (I), Maui (I), Hawaii Isl. (I)), Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo) (I), Cameroon (I), Principe Isl. (I), Sao Tome (I) as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus rosifolius var. coronarius (Sims) Focke (China (I) (Jiangxi, Shaanxi (I), Yunnan (I), and likely elsewhere), India (I), Indonesia (I), Malaysia (I), Sikkim (I), Darjeeling (I), Sri Lanka (I), Puerto Rico (I), Dominican Republic (I), Lesser Antilles (I) (St. Kitts (I), Montserrat (I), Guadeloupe (I), Dominica (I), Martinique (I), St. Vincent (I)), Brazil (I) as per Catalogue of life)
Rubus rugosus Smith (Nepal to Sikkim, Assam, Thailand, S-India, Sri Lanka, peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus sumatranus Miq. ? (China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Tibet, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), South South Korea, Bhutan, Cambodia, N-India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam, Darjeeling, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing), Sri Lanka as per Catalogue of Life)
Rubus treutleri Hook.f. (China (NW-Yunnan), Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, India, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin), Chumbi as per Catalogue of Life)
. BSI Flora of India Checklist (Distribution):
. .
.
. Species with description & pictures in Flowers of India as on 27.7.14:
. Rubus amabilis Focke (No distribution in India) Rubus hibiscifolius Focke (No distribution in India) Rubus lanatus Wall. ex Hook. f. (No distribution in India) Rubus rosifolius forma coronarius Sm. (Cultivated) Rubus wallichianus Wight & Arnott (No distribution given) Rubus x semi-nepalensis Naruhashi (No distribution given) . . Forest Plants of Eastern India By Amal Bhusan Chaudhuri (1993)- Rubus diffissus Focke Rubus hookeri Focke is a synonym of Rubus wardii Merr. Rubus phengodes Focke . Indian Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated Dictionary edited by C.P. Khare 92007)- Details- Rubus ellipticus . 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants edited by Kerry Scott Walter, Harriet J. Gillett- Rubus fockei Gandhi – Indeterminate- Karnataka, Kerala & Tamilnadu . An Excursion Flora of Central Tamilnadu, India By K. M. Matthew (1995)- Details with keys– . Antidiabetic Plants in India and Herbal Based Antidiabetic Research By T. Pullaiah, K. Chandrasekhar Naidu (2003)- Details- Rubus fruticosus L. (? Rubus fruticosus L. ex Dierb.is a synonym of Rubus vulgaris Weihe & Nees) . Gardening in India By George Marshall Woodrow, G Marshall 91999)- Details- . Rubus (Rosaceae) : 1 post by 1 author. I have updated eFI (efloraofindia) page on Rubus (Pl. click). Attempts have been made to incorporate most of the species available in India & nearby areas with details & keys directly or through links as far as possible. It’s quite possible that there may be some discrepancy in the accepted names & synonyms taken from other links. Species discussed so far in efloraofindia are given at the bottom of the page in the form of links against Subpages. On clicking them one can see all the details. If someone can provide complete list of Indian species with source references it will be wonderful. Any comments/ corrections are welcome. . Please help me : 4 posts by 3 authors. I am preparing review in the Rubus genus of Darjeeling Himalaya and Sikkim, will you guys please help me in obtaining some historical background of it. Who published it? What was it’s initial status? Etc. You may contact Dr. S. S. Dash, Publication Officer, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata who is at present working on a taxonomic revision of the genus Rubus under the Flora of India Project. . Rubus (Rosaceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 4 posts by 2 authors. Pl. go through Rubus (Rosaceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia. I request you to pl. go through & point out mistakes, if any. I hope this will aid in identifications in future. If anybody can send images of other species of this genera (for incorporation in the website), if any, or can identify unidentified images, it will be really nice. |
Rubus
Updated on December 24, 2024