Rubus adenophorus Rolfe

Shrubs scandent, 0.5–2 m tall. Branchlets brownish to brownish red, villous, with intermixed stalked purple glands and sparse, basally broadened and flattened prickles. Leaves imparipinnate, often 3-foliolate; petiole 5–8 cm, petiolule of terminal leaflet 2.5–4 cm, lateral leaflets subsessile, petiolule and rachis villous, with glandular hairs, sparsely prickly; stipules linear-lanceolate, 0.9–1.4 cm, villous, with sparse, stalked glands; blade of leaflets ovate to broadly ovate, 4–11 × 2–8 cm, both surfaces sparsely villous, abaxially with few stalked glands along veins, base rounded to subcordate, margin coarsely sharp doubly serrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, subracemes, 8–20(–25) cm; rachis, pedicels, and bracts yellow villous, with intermixed stalked purple glands; bracts lanceolate, 0.8–1.2 cm. Pedicel 6–9 mm. Flowers 6–8 mm in diam. Calyx abaxially with long yellow hairs and stipitate purple glands; sepals usually erect after anthesis, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 6–9 × 2.5–5 mm, apex acuminate. Petals purple, obovate or suborbicular, 5–8 × 5–7 mm, glabrous, base long clawed, margin premorse or dentate. Stamens many, nearly as long as petals; filaments linear. Pistils numerous, slightly shorter than stamens; styles glabrous or pilose at base; apex of ovary pilose when young. Aggregate fruit red, globose, 8–10 mm in diam., glabrous or slightly pilose; pyrenes distinctly rugose. Fl. Apr–Jun, fr. Jul–Aug.

Mountainous regions, valleys, sparse forests, forest margins, thickets. Low to medium elevations. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.

Rubus sagatus Focke.

Rubus adenophorus is a species of deciduous shrub in the genus Rubus in the family Rosaceae native to China, where it was discovered in 1907. It is distinctive for its black-headed glands mixed with bristles on the stems.