小瓣小檗 xiao ban xiao bo

Berberis micropetala T. S. Ying, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 37: 313. 1999, not C. K. Schneider (1939).

Shrubs, evergreen, to 1 m tall. Shoots gray, sulcate, not verruculose; spines 3-fid, pale yellow, 1-1.2 cm, terete. Petiole 2-3 mm; leaf blade abaxially brown, adaxially dark green, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 1.5-4.5 × 0.6-1.2 cm, leathery, both surfaces not pruinose, abaxially papillose, midvein conspicuously raised, adaxially with impressed midvein, both surfaces with indistinct lateral and reticulate veins, base attenuate, cuneate, margin slightly revolute, 12-16-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acute or obtuse. Flowers 5-fascicled. Pedicels stout, 1.2-1.4 mm, but one to 3-4 mm; bractlets rose-pink, ovate, apex acuminate. Sepals in 3 whorls; outer sepals lanceolate, 2.1-3 × 1-1.1 mm, upper part rose-pink; median sepals ovate-elliptic, ca. 4.1 × 2 mm, margin membranous, hyaline, apex rose-pink; inner sepals obovate-elliptic, ca. 4.3 × 2 mm. Petals obovate, 2.2-2.5 × 1-1.1 mm, base clawed, with separate oblong glands, apex entire. Stamens ca. 1.5 mm; anther connective prolonged, truncate. Ovules solitary, shortly funiculate. Fruit unknown. Fl. Apr, fr. unknown.

● Sunny slopes, mixed forests; 2800-3200 m. Yunnan.