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Rubus niveus var. micranthus (D. Don) H. Hara
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Habit: Shrub
Rubus bonatii H. Léveillé; R. boudieri H. Léveillé; R. distans D. Don; R. foliolosus D. Don; R. incanus Sasaki ex Y. C. Liu & Yang; R. lasiocarpus Smith; R. lasiocarpus var. ectenothyrsus Cardot; R. lasiocarpus var. micranthus (D. Don) J. D. Hooker; R. longistylus H. Léveillé; R. mairei H. Léveillé; R. micranthus D. Don; R. mysorensis F. Heyne; R. niveus var. micranthus (D. Don) H. Hara; R. pinnatus D. Don; R. pyi H. Léveillé; R. tongchouanensis H. Léveillé.
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"Evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in grasslands"
Scrambling shrubby perennial, up to 2 m, with sharp slightly recurved prickles. Young stems and branches covered in a white powdery substance, which is mostly lost on older parts. Leaves imparipinnate with 2-3 pairs of leaflets and a terminal leaflet; leaflets elliptic to ovate, shiny green and hairless above, covered in white felt below; margin serrate. Leaflets plicate along the prominent veins; main rhachis and petiole set with small prickles. Flowers in few-flowered pedicels and calyx covered in white hairs; petals shorter than sepals, white, mauve-pink or red. Fruit 8-10 mm in diameter, purple when ripe; carpels pubescent.
Thickets on slopes, sparse forests, montane valleys, stream sides, flood plains; 500--2800 m.
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niveus: purest white
This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.
N= 1239 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Apatelodidae: Apatelodes sp.; N=2, Unknown spp.; N=10.
Bombycidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.
Choreutidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.
Crambidae: Unknown spp.; N=135.
Drepanidae: Unknown sp. "unicornio"; N=126.
Erebidae: Amastus coccinator (Shaus); N=1, Amastus persimilis (Hampson); N=79, Bertholdia ockendeni (Rothschild); N=1, Bertholdia partita (Rawlins); N=12, Elysius ochrota (Hampson); N=40, Halysidota atra (Druce); N=1, Leucanopsis sp.; N=1, Lophocampa alsus (Cramer); N=3, Lophocampa andensis (Druce); N=1, Lophocampa nr. distincta (Rothschild); N=32, Melese innocua (Dognin); N=2, Melese nr. intensa (Rothschild); N=7, Neonerita haematosticta (Rothschild); N=2, Pachydota affinis (Rothschild); N=1, Pelochyta gandolfii (Schaus); N=7, Phaegoptera decreidoides (Rothschild); N=13, Phaegoptera sp.; N=1, Praeamastus minerva (Rothschild); N=3, Praeamastus sp.; N=3, Unknown spp.; N=401.
Geometridae: Bonatea viridilinea (Warren); N=1, Cirsodes acuminata (Guenee); N=4, Cirsodes bella (Warren); N=1, Glena sp.; N=1, Melinodes glomeraria (Dognin); N=3, Melinodes sp.; N=4, Nematocampa sp.; N=1, Oxydia geminata (Maaasen); N=1, Phyle herbuloti (Rindge); N=1, Psaliodes semisecta (Prout); N=1, Unknown spp.; N=143.
Hesperiidae: Unknown spp.; N=14.
Lasiocampidae: Unknown sp.; N=2.
Limacodidae: Unknown spp.; N=4.
Lycaenidae: Unknown spp.; N=6.
Megalopygidae: Unknown spp.; N=3
Noctuidae: Unknown spp.; N=29.
Notodontidae: Unknown spp.; N=21.
Nymphalidae: Unknown spp.; N=6.
Pantheidae: Unknown spp.; N=7.
Pteriphoridae: Unknown spp.; N=38.
Saturniidae: Arsenura sp.; N=1, Automeris abdominalis (Felder); N=5, Autoermis nr. abdominalis (Schaus); N=8, Automeris sp.; N=2, Cerodirphia mota napoensis (Lemaire); N=2, Dirphia sp.; N=2, Gamelia neidhoeferi (Lemaire); N=10, Gamelia sp.; N=54, Paradirphia geneforti (Bouvier); N=2, Paradirphia andicola (Lemaire); N=1, Paradirphia sp.; N=2, Pseudautomeris yourii (Lemaire); N=2.
Tortricidae: Sisurcana cirrhochroma (Razowski & Wojtusiak); Amorbia sp.; N=1,N=2, Unknown spp.; N=7.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
"Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Moist Deciduous Forests"
Flowering and fruiting: April-May
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Climber