Berberis masafuerana
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Berberis masafuerana is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). You just come on to Chile belonging Alexander Selkirk Island of Juan Fernandez archipelago before. The description of the species was given in 1921 by Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg in The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island .
description
Berberis masafuerana is a shrub that can reach heights of 2 meters. The bark of young twigs is glabrous or sometimes slightly hairy, dark red-brown; gray and a little rough with age. Thorns can be absent, indistinct or soft, sublet up to three to five parts, the thorn branches uneven and up to 4 millimeters long.
The leaves are ovate, ovate-lanceolate to elliptical, stalked 2 to 3 millimeters long, rounded at the tip, 1.6 to 3 centimeters long and 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters wide, darker on top than underneath.
The inflorescence forms a single flower or sometimes a little-flowered umbel . The spherical fruits have a diameter of 6 to 8 millimeters, the permanent style is about 0.5 millimeters long. Berberis masafuerana flowers between September and November and develops the fruits from December to January.
Occurrence
Berberis masafuerana is on to Chile belonging Alexander Selkirk Island (span. Más Afuera ) of the Juan Fernandez archipelago endemic . There it grows on unreachably steep slopes. It may have been more prevalent before goats became a native of the island. The species is still little explored.
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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.