Rubus playfairianus Hemsl. ex Focke

Shrubs climbing or scrambling, deciduous or semievergreen. Branchlets dark brown to blackish brown, initially tomentose, glabrescent, with sparse, curved minute prickles. Leaves palmately compound, 3–5-foliolate; petiole 2–4 cm, tomentose-villous, with sparse, curved small prickles, terminal leaflet sometimes very shortly petiolulate, lateral leaflets subsessile; stipules caducous, free, oblong, 8–11 mm, tomentose-villous, palmatipartite, lobes lanceolate or linear; blade of leaflets elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5–12 × 1–3 cm, terminal leaflet much larger than lateral leaflets, abaxially densely gray or yellowish gray appressed tomentose, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate, margin unevenly sharply serrate, lateral leaflets sometimes 2 lobed basally, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemes, 6–9 cm, to 15 cm in fruit; rachis and pedicels gray or yellowish gray tomentose-villous, with few small prickles; bracts oblong, 6–9 mm, tomentose-villous, palmatipartite; lobes linear to lanceolate. Pedicel 1–2 cm. Flowers 1–1.5 cm in diam. Calyx abaxially densely yellowish gray to gray tomentose-villous; sepals ovate-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, 6–10 × 4–6 mm, margin entire, apex acuminate to caudate. Petals ovate, 6–8 × 4–6 mm, apex acute. Stamens many, slightly shorter than petals, soft hairy when young, glabrate in age; filaments not inflated. Pistils ca. 60, slightly longer than or nearly as long as stamens, villous. Aggregate fruit red when immature, black at maturity, subglobose, villous, with many drupelets; pyrenes prominently rugose. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Jun–Jul.

Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Slopes, roadsides, stream sides, thickets; 300--2400 m.

Rubus cochinchinensis Trattinnick var. stenophyllus Franchet; R. playfairianus var. stenophyllus (Franchet) Cardot.

Rubus playfairianus là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa hồng. Loài này được Hemsl. ex Focke miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1910.

五叶鸡爪茶（学名：Rubus playfairianus）为蔷薇科悬钩子属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的贵州、陕西、湖北、四川等地，生长于海拔300米至1,700米的地区，多生长于溪边、生山坡路旁以及灌木丛中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。