Rubus microphyllusL.f.

WFO wfo-0000983265 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 microphyllus, photographed by Junichi　Mandai
fig. a Junichi　Mandai, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-24 / obs. 68576836
Rubus microphyllus, photographed by harum.koh
fig. b harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3377812
Rubus microphyllus, photographed by harum.koh
fig. c harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3392506
Rubus microphyllus, photographed by harum.koh
fig. d harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3288293
Rubus microphyllus, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16054509
Rubus microphyllus, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16054478
Rubus microphyllus, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. g Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16054492
Rubus microphyllus, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6767063

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Rubus microphyllus is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Rubus microphyllus, 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
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 19 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 corchorifolius var. incisus (Thunb.) Kuntze
  • Rubus corchorifolius var. pseudoincisus (Kuntze) Kuntze
  • Rubus geifolius Kuntze
  • Rubus grossularia H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Rubus incisus Thunb.
  • Rubus incisus f. geifolius (Kuntze) Matsum.
  • Rubus incisus f. pseudoincisus (Kuntze) Matsum.
  • Rubus incisus subvar. euincisus Koidz.
  • Rubus incisus subvar. geifolius (Kuntze) Koidz.
  • Rubus incisus subvar. microphyllus Koidz.
  • Rubus incisus unranked geifolius Kuntze
  • Rubus incisus var. euinsisus (Koidz.) Koidz.
  • Rubus incisus var. geifolius (Kuntze) Koidz.
  • Rubus incisus var. microphyllus (Koidz.) Koidz.
  • Rubus incisus var. proprius Koidz.
  • Rubus microphyllus var. incisus (Thunb.) Koidz.
  • Rubus microphyllus var. parvifolius Koidz.
  • Rubus pseudoincisus Kuntze
  • Rubus vinaceus T.Yamanaka & Momiy.

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.