得荣小檗 de rong xiao bo

Shrubs, evergreen, 1-1.5 m tall. Branches dark gray, black verruculose, angulate; shoots dark purplish red, angulate, not verruculose; internodes 6-12 mm; spines 3(or 5)-fid, pale yellow, 6-12 mm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially deep green, elliptic or subobovate, 5-15 × 3-5 mm, leathery, abaxially not pruinose, midvein conspicuously raised, adaxially with flat midvein, both surfaces with inconspicuous lateral and reticulate veins, base attenuate, margin entire, apex acute or obtuse. Flowers unknown. Infructescence an umbellate raceme with 4-7 berries, 1.5-3 cm including peduncle 0.8-1.5 cm; bracts lanceolate, ca. 3 mm; fruit stalk 2-4 mm, glabrous; berry black, obovoid-oblong, 7-8 × 3-4 mm, slightly pruinose, style 1-2 mm; seeds 2. Fl. unknown, fr. Aug.

● Thickets on slopes; ca. 3200 m. Sichuan.