Berberis corymbosa
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Berberis corymbosa is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). It comes from the Chilean Pacific island of Robinson Crusoe . The description of the species was published in 1833.
description
Berberis corymbosa grows as a shrub or shrub-like tree and reaches heights of up to 5 meters. The bark of young twigs is reddish-brown to yellowish-brown and smooth and becomes gray to light brown and rough with age. Thorns are often absent; if available, these are three-part, soft, the thorn branches are 2 to 5 millimeters long.
The leaves are elliptical, elliptical-lanceolate, oval to round, 2 to 4.2 inches long and 0.8 to 4 inches wide. The leaf margin is entire or rarely has a few spiky teeth. The petiole is 3 to 22 millimeters long, the attachment point of the leaf on the branch remains as a stump up to 2 millimeters long after the leaf falls.
The umbellate or panicle inflorescence is composed of up to ten flowers, which can be 1.5 to 7 centimeters long with the inflorescence stem. The flowers contain 14 bracts , are 5 to 6 millimeters in size and are on 2 to 20 millimeter long peduncles.
The spherical berries - fruit is to 9 millimeters long and the constant stylus is about 1 millimeter long. The berry contains some seeds between 5 and 6 millimeters in size.
Berberis corymbosa blooms in November and December in its homeland, it is fruiting from January to February.
distribution
This plant is on to Chile belonging Pacific -Insel Robinson Crusoe ( Isla Más a Tierra ) endemic and is the only native to this island Berberis -Art. The rare species grows there in damp forests.
Synonyms
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- Leslie R. Landrum: Revision of Berberis (Berberidaceae) in Chile and Adjacent Southern Argentina . In: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden . tape 86 , no. 4 , 1999.
- Leslie R. Landrum: Berberidaceae . In: Flora de Chile . Vol. 2 (2), 2003.
Web links
- Identification key of the Chilean Berberis species and description of this species. (Spanish; PDF file; 2.05 MB)