Rubus eriocarpus

 ( Eriocarpus ) 

Rubus eriocarpus is a Mesoamerican species of brambles in the Rosaceae. It grows in Central America and in central and southern Mexico, from Panama to Puebla. Rydberg, Per Axel. 1913. North American Flora 22(5): 442-443Morales Quirós, J. F. 2014. Rosaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. VII. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 129: 437–463Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá

Rubus eriocarpus is a prickly, hairless shrub. Leaves are palmately compound with 3 or 5 leaflets, the undersides appearing whitish because of a coating of wax. Flowers are white. Fruits are cylindrical or spherical.

• photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Distrito Federal de México in 1972