洮河小檗 tao he xiao bo

Shrubs, deciduous, ca. 1 m tall. Branches purplish brown, angulate, glabrous, sparsely black verruculose; spines simple or 3-fid, pale yellow, 1-1.5 cm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially green, narrowly obovate-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 1-2.2 cm × 3-6 mm, papery, abaxially not pruinose, glabrous, midvein obviously raised, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs, raised, reticulate veins conspicuous, adaxially with flat midvein, reticulate veins inconspicuous, base cuneate, margin slightly thickened, entire, apex acute, aristate. Inflorescence a raceme, 6-10-flowered, 2.5-3.5 cm including peduncle 7-12 mm, occasionally with 1 or 2 fascicled flowers at base, glabrous. Flowers unknown. Fruit stalk 4-5 mm; bracts ovate, ca. 1 mm, apex acute. Berry oblong-ellipsoid, 5-6 × 2-2.5 mm, slightly pruinose, style not persistent; seeds 2. Fl. unknown, fr. Jun.

● Riverbanks; ca. 1800 m. Gansu.