Berberis hancockiana (Takeda) Laferrière.

Shrubs, ca. 1.5 m tall. Leaves abaxially pale, adaxially dull grayish green, oblong-oblanceolate, 19-32 × 10-15 cm, with 4-9 pairs of sessile leaflets, lowest pair 0.5-2 cm above base of petiole, abaxially with branched veins and primary veins ± raised, adaxially ± not veined; rachis ca. 2 mm in diam.; internodes decreasing upward, 2-6 cm; lowest leaflets narrowly ovate, 1.5-4 × 1-2 cm, middle leaflets elliptic, 3-11 × 1.8-2.8 cm, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin with apiculate to shallowly serrate teeth, apex cuspidate-acuminate; terminal leaflet similar to middle leaflets, petiolule 1-2 cm. Inflorescence 4-15-fascicled racemes, 12-19 cm; bracts of inflorescence lanceolate, ca. 2.5 × 0.5 cm. Pedicel 2-3 mm; floral bracts ovate, 3-3.5 × 1.5-1.8 mm. Flowers deep yellow (?or violet). Outer sepals ovate, 2-3 × 1.5-2 mm, apically obtuse; median sepals ovate-elliptic, 4.5-5 × 2.4-3 mm; inner sepals obovate-elliptic, 4.6-6 × 2.6-3.2 mm. Petals elliptic, 4-4.4 × 1.8-2 mm, base with distinct glands, apex emarginate with rounded lobes. Stamens ca. 3.2 mm; anther connective prolonged, rounded. Ovary ca. 3.5 mm; ovules 4 or 5; style ca. 1 mm. Berry unknown. Fl. Feb, fr. unknown.

● Mixed forests, rocky hills; 1000-3200 m. SE Yunnan.