德浚小檗 de jun xiao bo

Shrubs, deciduous, ca. 1.5 m tall. Branches deep gray, not verruculose; shoots pale gray, sulcate; spines 3-fid, pale yellow, 0.5-1.6 cm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, oblanceolate or obovate-elliptic, 1-2.5 cm × 4-9 mm, papery, abaxially not pruinose, both surfaces with markedly raised reticulate veins, base attenuate, margin closely 9-16-spinulose-serrulate on each side, apex rounded, obtuse, occasionally acute. Flowers 5-8-fascicled. Pedicels 1.2-1.7 cm, glabrous; bractlets lanceolate, ca. 2.5 × 0.6 mm. Sepals in 3 whorls; outer sepals lanceolate, ca. 4.2 × 1.5 mm; median sepals elliptic, ca. 4.5 × 2 mm; inner sepals elliptic, ca. 4 × 2 mm. Petals obovate, ca. 3.5 × 2 mm, base clawed, with separate glands, apex incised. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm; anther connective prolonged, rounded, obtuse. Ovules 2, funiculate. Fruit unknown. Fl. Jun, fr. unknown.

● Thickets, alpine meadows, grassy slopes; 3600-4200 m. Sichuan.