Rubus has to be the poster child genus for the dog’s breakfast of modern taxonomy. The genus (including such familiar species as raspberries and blackberries) includes anywhere from 1407 species or a few dozen in the eternal wars between the lumpers and splitters. It doesn't really matter since they hybridise and duplicate their chromosome counts routin…
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