毕节小檗 bi jie xiao bo

Shrubs, evergreen, ca. 1.2 m tall. Branches grayish black, terete, not verruculose; shoots pale gray, sulcate, glabrous, usually only shoots with spines; spines 3-fid, pale yellow, ca. 1.2 cm. Petiole 2-3 mm; leaf blade abaxially brown when dry, adaxially dark green, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or oblong, 2-6.5 × 0.8-1.6 cm, leathery, abaxially not pruinose, midvein and lateral veins obviously raised, reticulate veins slightly prominent, adaxially with impressed midvein, lateral and reticulate veins slightly conspicuous, base cuneate, margin conspicuously revolute, undulate, 13-20-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acute or subacuminate. Flowers unknown. Infructescence with 3-6-fascicled berries; fruit stalk pale brown, 1-1.5 cm, glabrous; berry ellipsoid, 7-9 × 4-4.5 mm, not pruinose, style not persistent; seeds 3 or 4. Fl. unknown, fr. Aug-Sep.

● Thickets, dry places; 1300-1400 m. Guizhou.