屏边小檗 ping bian xiao bo

Shrubs, evergreen, to 2 m tall. Branches brownish gray, terete, sulcate, not verruculose; spines absent. Petiole short; leaf blade abaxially brownish yellow, adaxially yellow-green, not shiny, oblanceolate or obovate, 5-11 × 1.5-2.5 cm, leathery, abaxially with raised midvein and lateral veins, reticulate veins not visible, adaxially with slightly impressed midvein, reticulate veins conspicuous, base cuneate, margin 15-20-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acute. Flowers unknown. Fruit 2- or 3-fascicled; fruit stalk 1.5-2 cm; berry red, subglobose, 5-7 × ca. 4 mm, not pruinose, style not persistent. Fl. unknown, fr. Apr.

● Forest margins on limestone mountains; ca. 1900 m. Yunnan.