Rubus affinisWeihe & Nees

WFO wfo-0001018547 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rubus affinis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 205873759
Rubus affinis, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. b douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195304810
Rubus affinis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187334723
Rubus affinis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186222441
Rubus affinis, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. e Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181558760
Rubus affinis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181173790
Rubus affinis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180936123
Rubus affinis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180600385

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Rubus affinis is native: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden BelgiumDenmarkFranceGermanyIrelandNetherlandsSweden
Native distribution of Rubus affinis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belgium BGM EUROPE
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Netherlands NET
Sweden SWE

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Rubus affinis f. quinata Wirtg.
  • Rubus affinis f. septemnata Wirtg.
  • Rubus affinis subsp. burdigalensis Boulay & Clavaud
  • Rubus affinis subsp. emergens (Boulay & Malbr.) Boulay
  • Rubus affinis subsp. emergens Boulay & Malbr.
  • Rubus affinis subsp. germanicus Boulay
  • Rubus affinis subsp. novoaffinis Nyár.
  • Rubus affinis subsp. relatus (F.Aresch.) Nyman
  • Rubus affinis subsp. variidens Sudre & Bouvet
  • Rubus affinis unranked lentiginosus (Lees) Bab.
  • Rubus affinis var. archetypus Dumort.
  • Rubus affinis var. bracteosus Ser.
  • Rubus affinis var. fissus Dumort.
  • Rubus affinis var. relatus (F.Aresch.) Sudre
  • Rubus affinis var. subsenticosus Frid.
  • Rubus affinis var. vigorosus (P.J.Müll. & Wirtg.) Nyman
  • Rubus bakeri F.Lees
  • Rubus bergii (Cham. & Schltdl.) Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Rubus emergens Boulay & Malbr.
  • Rubus fastigiatus var. bergii Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Rubus nitidus subsp. affinis (Weihe & Nees) Berher
  • Rubus relatus F.Aresch.
  • Rubus rhamnifolius var. bakeri (F.Lees) Focke
  • Rubus vigorosus P.J.Müll. & Wirtg.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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