Rubus allophyllus Hemsley, p.p.

Shrubs creeping, 20–40 cm tall. Stems reddish brown to purplish brown, slender, soft hairy, sometimes sparsely soft bristly. Leaves simple; petiole 3–6 cm, villous or with sparse, intermixed soft bristles; stipules free, broadly ovate, 5–10 × 4–8 mm, sparsely soft hairy, pectinately lobed; lobes lanceolate; blade suborbicular, 3–6 × 3.5–6.5 cm, both surfaces villous, gradually glabrescent, with only sparse hairs along veins in age, base deeply cordate, margin 2- or 3-lobed, crenate or doubly serrate, apex obtuse. Inflorescences terminal, 2–3 cm in diam., 1- or 2-flowered; bracts broadly ovate, 5–8 × 4–6 mm, sparsely soft hairy, pectinately lobed; lobes lanceolate. Pedicel 2–4 cm, villous, soft bristly or stipitate glandular. Calyx abaxially densely minutely tomentose and with rigid bristles, sometimes with intermixed stipitate glands; sepals reflexed after anthesis, lanceolate, 1–1.4 cm × 3–4 mm, margin entire, apex long caudate. Petals white, oblong, slightly shorter than sepals, base long clawed. Stamens many, shorter than petals. Pistils slightly shorter than or nearly as long as stamens, glabrous. Aggregate fruit with few drupelets. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.

Slopes, forests; 2000--3300 m. C Sichuan (Emei Shan).