老君山小檗 lao jun shan xiao bo

Shrubs, evergreen, 0.5-1 m tall. Branches dark gray, terete; shoots pale yellow, not verruculose; spines 3-fid, pale yellow, ca. 1 cm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade adaxially dark green, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 1-2.3 cm × 4-7 mm, abaxially pruinose, midvein indistinct, adaxially veins indistinct, base attenuate, margin slightly revolute, 5-7-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acuminate, aristate. Flowers 3- or 4-fascicled. Pedicels 1-1.5 cm, glabrous. Sepals in 3 whorls; outer sepals triangular-ovate, ca. 2.1 × 1.2 mm; median sepals ovate, ca. 4 × 2 mm, apex acuminate; inner sepals oblong, 4.6-5 × 2.8-3.5 mm. Petals obovate, ca. 4 × 2 mm, base attenuate, with approximate glands, apex slightly retuse. Stamens ca. 3 mm; anther connective truncate. Ovules 4. Fruit unknown. Fl. May-Jun, fr. unknown.

● Thickets on slopes. Hubei.