Berberis rotundifolia
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Berberis rotundifolia is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She is from Chile . The description of the species was in 1838 by Eduard Friedrich Poeppig and Stephan Endlicher in Nova genera ac species plantarum quas in Regno Chilensi Peruviano ... published.
description
Berberis rotundifolia is a shrub that reaches heights of up to 1.5 meters. The bark of the young twigs are smooth, light reddish-brown or yellowish, turning gray with age. The thorns are star-shaped and the three to seven thorn branches are 2 to 15 millimeters long.
The skin-like leaves are round, elliptical to ovoid, 1.5 to 5 inches long and 0.6 to 4 inches wide. The sheet has entire margins or has a few soft spines. The petiole can be up to 4.5 inches long.
The umbellate or racemose inflorescence is 1 to 4 inches long and consists of seven to twelve flowers . The flowers, which have a diameter of about 4 millimeters, stand on 4 to 12 millimeter long peduncles. There are 11 to 14 bracts .
The blue to purple colored fruit is spherical and 6 to 7 millimeters long and usually contains five dark seeds that are approximately 4 millimeters long.
Berberis rotundifolia blooms in its homeland from November to January, it produces fruit from January to March.
Occurrence
This species is native to central Chile and is endemic to the Región del Maule southwards to the Región de los Lagos . It is an undergrowth in the southern beech forests.
Synonyms
There are several synonyms for Berberis rotundifolia :
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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