Rubus inopertus(Focke) Focke

WFO wfo-0001017787 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rubus inopertus, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-08-30 / obs. 105387057
Rubus inopertus, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105387082
Rubus inopertus, photographed by Lin Scott
fig. c Lin Scott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21310204
Rubus inopertus, photographed by Lin Scott
fig. d Lin Scott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18551646
Rubus inopertus, photographed by Lin Scott
fig. e Lin Scott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18551667
Rubus inopertus, photographed by Lin Scott
fig. f Lin Scott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18551713

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Rubus inopertus is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, East Himalaya, Nepal, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanEast HimalayaNepalVietnam
Native distribution of Rubus inopertus, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Vietnam VIE

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 10 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 fraxinifolius var. yushunii Suzuki & Yamam.
  • Rubus lasiocarpus var. rosifolius Hook.f.
  • Rubus niveus subsp. inopertus Focke
  • Rubus niveus var. rhodophyllos Focke
  • Rubus niveus var. rosifolius (Hook.f.) H.O.Saxena
  • Rubus ohwianus Koidz.
  • Rubus ritozanensis Sasaki
  • Rubus yamamotoanus H.L.Li
  • Rubus yushuni (Suzuki & Yamam.) Suzuki & Yamam.
  • Rubus yushunii (Suzuki & Yamam.) Suzuki & Yamam.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.