Rubus canescens
Rubus canescens
Çobankösteği
Low, usually trailing shrub. Turions procumbent, often angled, not pruinose, pubescent or glabrescent, sparingly armed with slender, short, falcate prickles. Leaves temate or sometimes pedate with 5 leaflets, discolorous; leaflets tomentellous or glabrous above, canescent-tomentose with stellate hairs below, bidentate, lateral ones subsessile, terminal one petiolulate, cuneate-obovate to rhombic; stipules linear. Flowering shoots erect, 15-40 cm, angled, pubescent to shortly tomentose, armed like the turions. Panicle terminal, many-flowered , ovate-oblong to narrowly oblong; only 1,5-3 cm wide, tomentose, bearing weak straight slender prickles, eglandular or rarely sparsely glandular. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, pubescent-tomentose, reflexed after flowering. Petals white , obovateoblong , 5-8 mm. Drupelets black, small and numerous, glabrous. Fl. 5-8. Open forest, scrub, stony hillsides, banks; s.l.-2150 m.
1. Leaflets minutely stellate-tomentellous above , dull green or greyish green var. canescens
1. Leaflets glabrous above, or sparsely simple-hairy, green and shining var. glabratus
Distribution of species: C. & S. Europe, W. Syria , Caucasia. Euro-Sib. element.
