Berberis glomerata
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Berberis glomerata is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She is from Chile . The species was described in 1830 by William Jackson Hooker and George Arnott Walker Arnott in The botany of Captain Beechey ’s voyage .
description
Berberis glomerata grows as an upright, little branched shrub and reaches heights of 2 meters. The bark of young twigs is hairy, dark red-brown in color and turns gray with age. The thorns are either three-part or palm-shaped, five-part, the individual thorn branches are between 3 and 11 millimeters long.
The stiff leather-like leaves are stalked up to 0.5 millimeters, ovate-oblong to rhombic, curved, between 8 and 20 millimeters long and 2 to 10 millimeters wide. Their color ranges from gray-green to olive-green. They are sometimes slightly shiny and have up to two thorny 1 millimeter long teeth pointing upwards on the edge on each side; the tip of the blade ends in a downwardly 1 millimeter long thorn.
The elongated, racemose or gold-like inflorescence consists of three to eight flowers . The yellow flowers are about 2.5 millimeters long and have eleven bracts . The fruit is a spherical purple berry with a diameter of 6 to 7 millimeters. The seeds are about 4 millimeters long.
Berberis glomerata blooms in its homeland from July to September, it produces fruit from September to November.
distribution
This plant is in the Chilean province of Coquimbo endemic .
Synonyms
Synonyms are:
- Berberis Zahlbruckneriana C.K. Schneid.
- Berberis glomerata var. Zahlbruckneriana ( CKSchneid. ) Ahrendt
swell
- 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
- 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)