Smith, J.E. (1824), The English Flora 2: 403 [tax. nov.]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Rubus fruticosus L. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 396 pro parte misapplication: Rubus chloocladus W.C.R.Watson legitimate by Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Rosaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 534 misapplication: Rubus ulmifolius hybrids [n/a] by Amor, R.L. & Miles, B.A. (5 July 1975), Taxonomy and distribution of Rubus fruticosus L. Agg. (Rosaceae) naturalized in Victoria. Muelleria 3(1): 51-54 misapplication: Rubus ulmifolius Schott legitimate by Symon, D.E. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Rosaceae. A list of the vascular plants of South Australia Edn. 4: 36 misapplication: Rubus chloocladus W.C.R.Watson legitimate by Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 574, Fig. 117m

• APC Comment: K.J.Evans et al., Aust. Syst. Bot. 20: 47 (2007) refer to the R. leucostachys 'Foster biotype', but this is not considered to warrant separate taxonomic status (R.M.Barker, pers. comm. 2007).
• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Evans, K.J., Symon, D.E., Whalen, M.A., Hosking, J.R., Barker, R.M. & Oliver, J.A. (22 June 2007), Systematics of the Rubus fruticosus aggregate (Rosaceae) and other exotic Rubus taxa in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 20: 223, 225-226, Figs 26, 29 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Rubus chloocladus W.C.R.Watson legitimate by Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Rosaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 534 pro parte misapplication: Rubus chloocladus W.C.R.Watson legitimate by Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 574, Fig. 117m

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 71 [secondary reference]

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