Berberis negeriana
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Berberis Negeriana is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She is from Chile . The species was described in 1902 by Georg Friedrich Leopold Tischler in Botanical Yearbooks for Systematics, Plant History and Plant Geography . The species name honors the person who found the plant, the German botanist Franz Wilhelm Neger (1868–1923).
description
Berberis negeriana grows as a shrub that only reaches heights of about one meter. The bark of young twigs is light brown to gray and covered with fine papillae; With increasing age, the bark of the branches turns gray, it then shows longitudinal cracks and edges. Thorns are missing.
The leathery leaves are ovate-elliptical, 4.8 to 10 inches long and 1.3 to 4.2 inches wide. The leaf margin is roughly serrated, rarely entire, with six to 16 thorn-pointed teeth that can be up to 3 millimeters long. The leaf stalk is up to 3 millimeters long.
The racemose inflorescence is a 2 to 8 inches long and consists of up to twelve flowers . The flower stalks are 10 to 16 millimeters long. The yellow flowers have 14 bracts and are 5 to 8 millimeters long. The fruit is about 7 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide, the style about 3 millimeters long.
Berberis negeriana blooms in its home country from September to November; it is fruitful from December to January.
distribution
This species of plant is endemic only known from the area east of the Chilean city of Concepción . It is the rarest and most endangered Berberis species in Chile. Only a few specimens are known of the only location in a southern beech forest.
Web links
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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.
- A. Engler (Ed.): Georg Tischler. In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography. Volume 31, published by Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1902