Rubus parvifolius

Scrambling shrub or trailer; stems to c. 1 m long, finely pubescent to tomentose, glabrescent with age, bearing curved prickles to c. 3 mm long. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 3–5, more or less ovate, mostly 1–4 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, base cuneate, margins sharply and often deeply toothed, upper surface green, wrinkled, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose, main vein hairy; stipules entire or deeply lobed. Flowers in short terminal panicles or single in upper leaf axils. Sepals pubescent, acuminate, reflexed; petals broadly elliptic to suborbicular, pink or red. Fruiting head more or less globose, c. 10 mm diam.; fruit red or orange, falling from receptacle when ripe. Flowers mostly Nov.–Feb.