Common name: Silky Bramble, Lawyer Bramble
Rubus moorei F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Evergreen climber with numerous very fine hooked prickles on pedicels and lower half of sepals and petioles, petiolules and main veins on lower leaflet surface, young growth silky.
Leaves 5-foliolate; leaflets usually ovate to elliptic, 4–10 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, margins prominently toothed, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely to densely hairy; petiole 3–5 cm long; lateral petiolules 4–12 mm long, terminal petiolule 30–50 mm long.
Sepals c. 5 mm long. Petals c. 10 mm long, white.
Fruit ± globose, c. 10 mm diam., red.
Distribution and occurrence: in subtropical rainforest north from the Richmond River; not common.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G.J. Harden & A.N. Rodd
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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