Berberis henryi Laferrière.

Shrubs or small trees, 1.5-5 m tall. Leaves abaxially ± shiny to dull pale green, adaxially shiny, elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, 8-38 × 5-10 cm, thickly leathery, with 8-18 overlapping pairs of leaflets, lowest pair ca. 1 cm above base of petiole, abaxially loosely veined, adaxially veins indistinct; internodes decreasing in length upward, 1.7-3.5 cm; leaflets sessile, increasing in length upward, width decreasing slightly upward, so that leaflet shape changes from broadly ovate to narrowly ovate or oblong, 2.5-7 × 2-3 cm, thick, rigid, base truncate, oblique, proximal margin with 2 or 3 teeth, distal margin with 3-5 teeth, apex a bent cup, 1.5-2.3 cm × 5-8 mm; terminal leaflet ca. 7 × 3 cm, petiolule ca. 1.2 cm. Inflorescence 3-6-fascicled racemes, 11-18 cm; bracts of inflorescence ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 10-15 × 5-7 mm. Pedicel 5-5.5 mm; floral bracts broadly lanceolate, 4.5-5 × 1.6-2.3 mm. Sepals yellow; outer sepals oblong-ovate, 2.7-3 × 1.5-2.2 mm; median sepals broadly elliptic, 5-5.1 × ca. 3 mm; inner sepals oblong-ovate, 8-9 × 4-4.5 mm. Petals oblong-obovate, 7-8 × 3.5-4.2 mm, base with distinct glands, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 5 mm; anther connective prolonged, shortly apiculate. Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 5.5 mm; ovules 3; style ca. 1.5 mm. Berry ellipsoid, slightly pruinose, ca. 10 × 5-6 mm; style persistent. Fl. Jun-Oct, fr. Oct-Dec.

Mahonia conferta is probably not distinct from M. napaulensis, with which it should be combined.

● Forests, shaded places on slopes; 1500-2100 m. Yunnan.