Berberis grevilleana
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Berberis grevilleana is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She is from Argentina . The species was described in 1833.
description
Berberis grevilleana grows as a shrub and reaches heights of up to 2 meters. The bark of young twigs is smooth to slightly papillary, gray-green to light yellow-brown; on older branches it is gray with longitudinal furrows and numerous black spots, sometimes also sticky. The thorns are three to four parts, the thorn branches are 1.2 to 4.5 centimeters long.
The leathery, gray-green leaves are hardly stalked, elliptical to lanceolate to diamond-shaped, 1.5 to 3 inches long and 0.5 to 2.6 inches wide, with entire margins or with one to four teeth on each side and prickly.
The racemose inflorescence consists of only one to five flowers . The flowers are stalked 0.4 to 1.1 centimeters, about 5 millimeters long and contain 14 bracts .
The fruit is a berry about 1 centimeter long with a 0.5 millimeter long style and contains three to four seeds that are fused into a mass in the berry.
Berberis grevilleana blooms in their homeland in October and November; it is fruitful from January to February.
Occurrence
The Argentina crucero plant species mentioned is in the western central Argentina one endemic in the provinces ( Mendoza , San Juan , Córdoba ) and the Cordilleras de Santiago i de Colchagua (Landrum, 1999 and Landrum, according to 2003 this type does not exist in Chile) . It inhabits stony slopes in shrubby, dry areas and reaches altitudes of 1800 to 2000 meters above sea level.
Hybrids of Berberis grevilleana with the crowberry-leaved barberry ( Berberis empetrifolia ) are known.
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
- Berberis grevilleana near Chile Bosque (span.)
- Identification key of the Chilean Berberis species and description of this species. (Spanish; PDF file; 2.05 MB)