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Rubus ellipticus

Sm. (1815)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Rosales Family: Rosaceae Genus: Rubus

yellow himalayan raspberry

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Stout, weakly climbing, evergreen shrubs.

Stems: Stems often 30–40 dm long, forming impenetrable thickets several m wide, primocanes usually erect, covered with usually spreading prickles up to 5 mm long, floricanes covered with stout, recurved, longitudinally elongate prickles up to 6 mm long and densely covered with slender, spreading prickles, also sparsely to moderately pilose.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound (palmate). Alternate. Blades broadly obcordate, leaflets 3, the terminal one largest, usually 6–8 cm long, 5–6.5 cm wide, those of the primocanes slightly smaller. Upper surfaces sparsely pilose; lower surfaces densely velvety pilose, midrib with a few small, stout, recurved prickles and smaller straight ones; thick, petiolules 1.5–3 cm long, petiolules densely covered with long, straight prickles and scattered stout, recurved prickles, also sparsely to moderately pilose. Margins serrate. Petioles densely covered with long, straight prickles and scattered stout, recurved prickles, also sparsely to moderately pilose. Stipules adnate to base of petioles.

Flowers: Flowers in short, terminal panicles, tomentose and covered throughout with short prickles, pedicels 3–10 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Receptacle raised, margins bearing sepals, petals, and stamens. Calyx lobes 5, persistent, distinct, imbricate. Corolla of 5 petals, white, distinct, obovate, imbricate, 7–9 mm long. Stamens numerous; filaments slender; anthers dithecal. Ovary superior, inserted on the raised receptacle, 1-celled; ovules 2 per cell; style filiform, subterminal, persistent.

Fruit: Fruit fleshy; juicy drupelets; crowded together on receptacle; yellow; depressed–hemispherical; ca. 0.8 cm long; glabrous. Seeds 1 per drupelet.

Ploidy: 2n = 14

Habitat:

Elevation Range: 1,060–1,220 m.

Historical Distribution

Images

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Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Rubus ellipticus var. obcordatus Focke

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

O'ahu Extirpated
Maui Potentially Naturalizing
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Birds

Vegetative Reproduction

Pollinators

Specimens

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Bibliography

Name Published In: A.Rees, Cycl. 30: Rubus n.º 16 (1815)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Rubus ellipticus Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula Growing with wide variety of ornamentals. Growing out of two different hapuu (Cibotium) trunks. Preserved_Specimen Plants about 6 inches tall, but had been cut back; stem of Rubus plants up to 1 inch in diameter OED 8021916 Maui BISH 2008-02-19
2 Rubus ellipticus Halawa Valley, directly above tunnel area Low-growing wet forest of hapu'u, ohia, koa, some weeds. Preserved_Specimen Low-growing shrub 1-2 ft. tall, sterile. About 5 plants, none mature. Lau, A. 4 Oahu BISH 2005-10-25
3 Rubus ellipticus Kaneohe; 46-305 Hoanua Street Weed in anthurium garden, semi-shade; grew out of potting media; 2-3 months growth. Preserved_Specimen Cultured, augmented residential anthurium ground-planter; large, agressive, spreading, sprawling, attacking, spiny, thorny. Size; 2' x 3'. Stem rigid spiny, young emergent-red. Leaves large, triple-leaflets, spiny. Sterile. yellow-orange to faintly greenish-orange; pulp yellow, extremely tart, aril? sweet with interesting taste, sap of immature frt oily yellow. Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1994-05-05
4 Rubus ellipticus Lyon Arboretum. Along trails in upper Manoa Valley. UNKNOWN Fruits dull yellow, to 0.8 cm diameter. U.S. Department of Agriculture PI 553189 Oahu HAPI 8/8/1983
5 Rubus ellipticus No locality information available Montane wet forest, montane disturbance community; roadside UNKNOWN Bioversity International R. E. Palmer Hawaii HAPI 7/15/1997
6 Rubus ellipticus Hilo, HI, US HUMAN_OBSERVATION Action Method: Ground; Method: Mapping Grade; Correction: Uncorrected; Comment: GPS Maui Invasive Species Committee Hawaii HAPI 11/7/2009
7 Rubus ellipticus Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula Growing with wide variety of ornamentals. Growing out of two different hapuu (Cibotium) trunks. Preserved_Specimen Plants about 6 inches tall, but had been cut back; stem of Rubus plants up to 1 inch in diameter OED 8021916 Maui BISH 2008-02-19
8 Rubus ellipticus Halawa Valley, directly above tunnel area Low-growing wet forest of hapu'u, ohia, koa, some weeds. Preserved_Specimen Low-growing shrub 1-2 ft. tall, sterile. About 5 plants, none mature. Lau, A. 4 Oahu BISH 2005-10-25
9 Rubus ellipticus Kaneohe; 46-305 Hoanua Street Weed in anthurium garden, semi-shade; grew out of potting media; 2-3 months growth. Preserved_Specimen Cultured, augmented residential anthurium ground-planter; large, agressive, spreading, sprawling, attacking, spiny, thorny. Size; 2' x 3'. Stem rigid spiny, young emergent-red. Leaves large, triple-leaflets, spiny. Sterile. yellow-orange to faintly greenish-orange; pulp yellow, extremely tart, aril? sweet with interesting taste, sap of immature frt oily yellow. Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1994-05-05
10 Rubus ellipticus Lyon Arboretum. Along trails in upper Manoa Valley. UNKNOWN Fruits dull yellow, to 0.8 cm diameter. U.S. Department of Agriculture PI 553189 Oahu HAPI 8/8/1983
11 Rubus ellipticus No locality information available Montane wet forest, montane disturbance community; roadside UNKNOWN Bioversity International R. E. Palmer Hawaii HAPI 7/15/1997
12 Rubus ellipticus Hilo, HI, US HUMAN_OBSERVATION Action Method: Ground; Method: Mapping Grade; Correction: Uncorrected; Comment: GPS Maui Invasive Species Committee Hawaii HAPI 11/7/2009
13 Rubus ellipticus Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula Growing with wide variety of ornamentals. Growing out of two different hapuu (Cibotium) trunks. Preserved_Specimen Plants about 6 inches tall, but had been cut back; stem of Rubus plants up to 1 inch in diameter OED 8021916 Maui BISH 2008-02-19
14 Rubus ellipticus Halawa Valley, directly above tunnel area Low-growing wet forest of hapu'u, ohia, koa, some weeds. Preserved_Specimen Low-growing shrub 1-2 ft. tall, sterile. About 5 plants, none mature. Lau, A. 4 Oahu BISH 2005-10-25
15 Rubus ellipticus Kaneohe; 46-305 Hoanua Street Weed in anthurium garden, semi-shade; grew out of potting media; 2-3 months growth. Preserved_Specimen Cultured, augmented residential anthurium ground-planter; large, agressive, spreading, sprawling, attacking, spiny, thorny. Size; 2' x 3'. Stem rigid spiny, young emergent-red. Leaves large, triple-leaflets, spiny. Sterile. yellow-orange to faintly greenish-orange; pulp yellow, extremely tart, aril? sweet with interesting taste, sap of immature frt oily yellow. Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1994-05-05
16 Rubus ellipticus Lyon Arboretum. Along trails in upper Manoa Valley. UNKNOWN Fruits dull yellow, to 0.8 cm diameter. U.S. Department of Agriculture PI 553189 Oahu HAPI 8/8/1983
17 Rubus ellipticus No locality information available Montane wet forest, montane disturbance community; roadside UNKNOWN Bioversity International R. E. Palmer Hawaii HAPI 7/15/1997
18 Rubus ellipticus Hilo, HI, US HUMAN_OBSERVATION Action Method: Ground; Method: Mapping Grade; Correction: Uncorrected; Comment: GPS Maui Invasive Species Committee Hawaii HAPI 11/7/2009
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