Berberis valdiviana
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Berberis Valdiviana is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). She is from Chile . The description of the species was made in 1856 by Rudolph Amandus Philippi in Linnaea. A journal for botany published in its entirety . A not common German name for this species is Valdivia barberry .
description
Berberis valdiviana grows as a shrub and reaches stature heights of 3 meters. The bark of young twigs is reddish brown in color, with increasing age it soon turns gray and then often shows longitudinal cracks. The thorns are in three parts, the thorn branches are 1 to 3.8 centimeters long, the lateral thorn branches are at right angles to the central thorn branch.
The stiff, leathery leaves are elliptical, ovate-lanceolate, more rarely oval, 1.8 to 8 inches long and 1 to 3.4 inches wide. Occasionally trilobed leaves are also present. The leaf margin is flat or slightly bent, with entire margins or with up to eight narrow, spike-like teeth on each side, whereby the teeth can be 1 to 4 millimeters long. The petiole can be up to 7 millimeters long.
The racemose inflorescence is 3.5 to 9 inches long and consists of 10 to 30 flowers . The flower stalks are 4 to 6 millimeters long. The yellow flowers contain 14 bracts and are 3 to 5 millimeters long. The spherical fruit is about 6 millimeters long and has a style up to 1 millimeter long and contains one to four seeds that are about 4 millimeters long.
Berberis valdiviana blooms in its home from September to November; it is fruitful from November to January.
Hybrids of this kind with Berberis darwinii are known.
distribution
In their home clen or espina en cruz -called plant in Chile an endemic of the Colchagua Province southward to the Los Lagos Region . It grows there in the undergrowth of southern beech forests.
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.
Web links
- Berberis valdiviana on www.chilebosque.cl (span.)
- Identification key of the Chilean Berberis species and description of this species. (Spanish; PDF file; 2.05 MB)