Berberis serratodentata
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Berberis serratodentata tata (frequent spelling: Berberis serratodentata tata . Lechl Syn. : Berberis pearcei Phil. Is a) plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She comes from Chile and Argentina . The species was described in 1857 by the German botanist Willibald Lechler . The botanical name refers to the reinforced leaf margin.
description
Berberis serratodentata is a shrub that reaches heights of up to 1.5 meters. Young twigs have smooth, sometimes shiny yellow-brown bark, the bark of older twigs turns gray and fibrous. Thorns are generally absent; If they are present, then they are three-part to palm-shaped with thorn branches up to 4 millimeters long.
The leathery leaves are elongated, elliptical, oval to lanceolate, 2.3 to 9.3 inches long and 1.1 to 2.4 inches wide. The leaf margin is often bent over, with 10 to 32 spiny teeth on each side that can be 1 to 2.5 millimeters long. The petiole is up to 7 millimeters long.
The racemose inflorescence is 0.8 to 1.5 inches long and consists of eight to 15 flowers . The orange, hermaphrodite flowers are stalked 6 to 13 millimeters long. The 14 bracts are about 5 to 7 millimeters long. The spherical fruit is about 7 millimeters long, has a style up to 2 millimeters long and contains four to six seeds that can be up to 5 millimeters long.
Berberis serratodentata blooms in its home from November to December and produces fruit from January to March.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.
distribution and habitat
The plant species, called Saloll in its homeland, occurs in Chile from the Región del Bío-Bío south to the Región de Aisén , in Argentina in the west of the provinces Río Negro , Neuquén and Santa Cruz . Berberis serratodentata grows in the southern beech and araucaria forests.
Systematics
With Berberis ilicifolia , Berberis serratodentata forms the hybrid Berberis x pseudoilicifolia Skottsb.
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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berberis serratodentata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis