巧家小檗 qiao jia xiao bo

Shrubs, deciduous, small, 30-50 cm tall. Branches dark brown, terete, black verruculose; shoots purplish red, angulate; spines 3-fid, concolorous, slender, adaxially slightly sulcate. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially shiny, deep green, oblong-oblanceolate, 1-1.3 cm × 4-5 mm, papery, abaxially with markedly raised midvein and lateral veins, reticulate veins inconspicuous, not pruinose, purplish red, base cuneate, margin thickened, entire, apex rounded. Flowers unknown. Berry solitary, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 1-1.2 cm × 5-7 mm, slightly pruinose, style not persistent; seeds 4. Fl. unknown, fr. Oct.

● Grasslands at mountain summits; ca. 3300 m. Yunnan.