Biology:Berberis dictyota

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Short description: Species of shrub

Berberis dictyota
Mahonia californica 'Shasta Blue' (Mahonia dictyota) - Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA - DSC04290.JPG
Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley Hills.

Apparently Secure (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Berberidaceae
Genus: Berberis
Species:
B. dictyota
Binomial name
Berberis dictyota
Jeps.
Synonyms[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
  • Berberis aquifolium var. dictyota (Jeps.) Jeps.[2][3]
  • Berberis californica Jeps
  • Mahonia dictyota (Jeps.) Fedde
  • Mahonia californica (Jeps.) Ahrendt
  • Odostemon dictyota (Jeps.) Abrams

Berberis dictyota, now reclassified as Berberis aquifolium var. dictyota,[2] with the common names Jepson's oregon grape and shining netvein barberry, is a flowering plant in the Barberry family.[3][9]

Description

Berberis dictyota is an evergreen shrub up to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall. Leaves are pinnate, with 5-7 leaflets; leaflets thick and rigid, whitish with a thick waxy layer on the underside, up to 9 cm long, with spines along the edges.[2]

Yellow flowers are borne in dense racemes of up to 50 flowers.[2] The bloom period is February through April.[3]

Berries are egg-shaped, dark blue, sometimes with a waxy coating, up to 7 mm long.[2][7][10][11]

Distribution and habitat

The plant is endemic to California . It is very widespread, found from the Peninsular Ranges in San Diego County north to the Klamath Mountains in Siskiyou County, and east to the Sierra Nevada.[2][3][12]

It is native to chaparral, Foothill oak woodland, and yellow pine forest habitats, at elevations of 600–1,800 metres (2,000–5,900 ft).[2][3][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NatureServe Explorer - Berberis dictyota". NatureServe. 2022-05-30. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.148534. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Jepson eFlora: Berberis aquifolium var. dictyota . accessed 31 October 2016.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Calflora: Berberis aquifolium var. dictyota . accessed 31 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Tropicos
  5. ↑ Jepson, Willis Linn. 1921. Flora of California 1: 549.
  6. ↑ Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. California Flora 1–1681. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Flora of North America vol 3, Berberis dictyota
  8. ↑ Abrams, LeRoy. 1910. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 6(21): 360, Odostemon dictyota
  9. ↑ "Mahonia dictyota". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=MADI11. Retrieved 28 June 2015. 
  10. ↑ Jepson, Willis Linn. 1891. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 18(11): 319
  11. ↑ Fedde, Friedrich Karl Georg. 1901. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 31(1–2): 89, Mahonia dictyota
  12. ↑ Biota of North America Project floristic synthesis, Mahonia dictyota

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16748802 entry



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