Berberis litoralis
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Berberis litoralis is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She is from Chile . The species was described by Rudolph Amandus Philippi in Florula Atacamensis ... in 1860.
description
Berberis litoralis is a shrub that can reach heights of growth of 5 meters. The bark of young twigs is dark red-brown and soon turns gray and longitudinally fissured with age. The thorns are usually in three parts, the thorn branches between 0.5 and 2.3 centimeters long.
The leathery leaves are elliptical to oval, 2 to 5.8 inches long and 0.8 to 3.2 inches wide. They are gray-green in color and lighter on the underside than on the top. The leaf margin is bent and serrated with 1 to 10 teeth that are 1 to 2 millimeters long on each side. The leaf is spiky, sessile or stalked up to 3 millimeters long.
The racemose inflorescence is composed of six to 17 flowers and is sometimes leafy at the tip. The orange colored flowers are stalked between 6 and 15 millimeters long, about 5 millimeters in size and they have 14 bracts . Berberis litoralis blooms in their home country in September and October.
The spherical fruits are about 7 millimeters long, they end in a stylus about 1 millimeter long and contain about five seeds that are about 5 millimeters long.
distribution
This plant species is endemic to the north coast of Chile . Their distribution is limited to hills on the coast at altitudes of 500 to 1000 meters above sea level in the Chilean province of Región de Antofagasta .
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
Web links
- Identification key of the Chilean Berberis species and description of this species. (Spanish; PDF file; 2.05 MB)