Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Rosopsida Batsch - eudicots |
| order | Rosales Perleb |
| family | Rosaceae L. |
| genus | Rubus L. - blackberry |
| subgenus | Rubus subgen. Rubus |
| section | Rubus sect. Rubus - bramble blackberry |
| subsection | Rubus subsect. Hiemales E. H. L. Krause |
| species group | Rubus ser. Discolores (P. J. Mueller) Focke |
| species | Rubus phyllostachys P. J. Müll. |