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Rubus fruticosus

Rubus fruticosus L. is the ambiguous name of a European blackberry species in the genus Rubus in the rose family. The name has been interpreted in several ways:

• The species represented by the type specimenofRubus fruticosus L., which is also the type specimen of the genus Rubus.^[1] This specimen is considered to match the species R. plicatus, in Rubus subgenus Rubus, section Rubus.^[2][3]

Apart from the established meaning of Rubus fruticosus L. as R. plicatus, the name R. fruticosus has been incorrectly applied to several species, including:

• Rubus fructicosus Weihe & Nees, Rubi Germ. 24, 1822 -> Rubus montanus Lib. ex Lej., Fl. Spa 2: 317, 1813 (or part of Rubus montanus) ^[10][11]
• Rubus fruticosus G.N.Jones -> Rubus vestitus Weihe ^[12]
• Rubus fruticosus L. ex Dierb. -> Rubus vulgaris Weihe & Nees ^[12]
• Rubus fruticosus Lour. -> Rubus cochinchinensis Tratt.^[12]

• Media related to Rubus fruticosus at Wikimedia Commons
• "Rubus fruticosus". Plants for a Future.

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