Berberis circumserrata (C.K.Schneid.) C.K.Schneid.

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Berberidaceae > Berberis

Characteristics

Shrubs, deciduous, to 1 m tall. Branches yellow or yellowish brown, sulcate, sparsely black verruculose; internodes 1.5-4 cm; spines 3-fid, 1.5-3 cm. Leaves very shortly petiolate; leaf blade abaxially gray-white, adaxially dark green, obovate-oblong or obovate, occasionally suborbicular, 1.5-3.5 × 0.5-2.5 cm, papery, abaxially pruinose, both surfaces with conspicuously raised reticulate veins, base attenuate, margin closely 15-40-spinulose-serrulate on each side, apex rounded. Flowers 2-5-fascicled. Pedicels (0.8-)1.5-3 cm, glabrous. Sepals in 2 or 3 whorls; outer sepals oblong-elliptic, 7-8 × 4-5 mm; inner sepals obovate-oblong, 9-10 × 6-7 mm. Petals obovate, 7-7.5 × 4-4.5 mm, base clawed, with separate glands, apex entire or emarginate. Stamens ca. 4 mm; anther connective rounded or truncate. Ovules (3-)6 or 7(or 8). Berry red, ellipsoid or oblong, (1-)1.3-1.5 cm × 5-6(-7) mm, not pruinose, style persistent. Fl. May, fr. Jul-Sep.
More
A shrub.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 60 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 18
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Berberis circumserrata world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:106541-1
WFO ID wfo-0000562973
COL ID LJKX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Berberis circumserrata Berberis diaphana var. circumserrata Berberis circumserrata var. circumserrata

Lower taxons

Berberis circumserrata var. subarmata