Berberis comberi
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Berberis comberi is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She is from Argentina . The description of the species was published in 1927 by Thomas Archibald Sprague and Noel Yvri Sandwith in the Kew Bulletin .
description
Berberis comberi grows as a dense shrub and reaches heights of up to one meter. The bark of young branches is yellowish-brown, older branches are striped with gray. The shrub has no thorns.
The stiff, leathery leaves are diamond-shaped, egg-shaped-elliptical or palm-shaped, 2 to 4.5 centimeters long and 1.7 to 4.6 centimeters wide and are available individually or in clusters in twos or threes on short shoots. The leaves are slightly glossy on the top, glossy or matt on the underside. The leaf margin has one or two tooth-like tips on each side, the leaves are pointed. The petiole is missing or is no more than 2 millimeters long.
The inflorescence is a single flower or an umbel consisting of two or three flowers . The flower stalk is 2 to 4 millimeters. The yellow-orange flower is about an inch long and contains 12 to 14 bracts .
The spherical fruit is about 1 to 1.3 centimeters, the style about 3 millimeters long and contains four to eleven seeds that are 11 millimeters long and are fused into a mass in the fruit.
Berberis comberi flowers in September and October in their homeland; it is fruitful in November and December.
Occurrence
This plant species is endemic to the Argentine provinces of Mendoza (province) and Neuquén (province) . It only grows there in a few locations in the rain shadow of the Andes with major seasonal climatic changes.
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- Leslie R. Landrum: Revision of Berberis (Berberidaceae) in Chile and Adjacent Southern Argentina in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Volume 86 Number 4, 1999