Watson, W.C.R. (1956), New species and combinations in the genus Rubus L. Watsonia 3: 287 [tax. nov.]

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

pro parte misapplication: Rubus fruticosus L. 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

• APC Dist.: SA (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: 229-231, Figs 33, 35 [secondary reference]

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]

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 52 [secondary reference]

common name: blackberry [n/a]

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