永思小檗 yong si xiao bo

Shrubs, deciduous, ca. 1.5 m tall. Branches and shoots dark brown, very conspicuously sulcate, glabrous; spines 3-fid, weak, pale yellow, 2-5 mm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade abaxially yellow-green, adaxially shiny, dark green, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, sometimes obovate, 7-15 × 3-6 mm, papery, abaxially midvein slightly raised, lateral and reticulate veins inconspicuous, not pruinose, adaxially veins inconspicuous, base cuneate, margin 1-3-spinose-serrulate on each side, apex acute. Flowers unknown. Infructescence with 3-6-fascicled berries; fruit stalk purplish red, 3-4 mm, glabrous; berry ellipsoid, 6-8 × ca. 3 mm, not pruinose; style persistent, short; seeds 1. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.

● Thickets; ca. 2100 m. Guizhou.