Compilation
Berberis grantii
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Name
Identification
Berberis grantii Ahrendt [family BERBERIDACEAE ] Verified by Skill, R.P., Berberis holstii Engl. [family BERBERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Skill, R.P., Berberis holstii Engl. [family BERBERIDACEAE ]
Related name
- Berberis grantii
- Berberis holstii
Flora
Entry for BERBERIS holstii Engl. [family BERBERIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1966) Author: R. M. Polhill
Names
BERBERIS holstii Engl. [family BERBERIDACEAE], P.O.A. C: 181 (1895); Sprague in Hook., Ic. Pl. 31, t. 3021 (1915); T.S.K.: 9 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 70(1949); Milne-Redh. in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 215 (1953); Wild in F.Z. 1: 171, t. 24 (1960); Ahrendt in J.L.S. 57: 102 (1961); K.T.S.: 58 (1961). Type: Tanganyika, Usambara Mts., Holst 427 (B, holo.†)
BERBERIS tinctoria [family BERBERIDACEAE], [sensu A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 10 (1847), non Lesch.]
BERBERIS aristata [family BERBERIDACEAE], [sensu Oliv, in F.T.A. 1: 51 (1868), non DC]
BERBERIS aristata Eng. var. subintegra [family BERBERIDACEAE], in E.J. 28: 389 (1900). Type: Tanganyika, Uluguru Mts., Goetze 280 (B, holo.†)
BERBERIS petitiana C. K. Schn. [family BERBERIDACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, 5: 455 (1905); R. E. Fries in N.B.G.B. 9: 319 (1925); Ahrendt in J.L.S. 57: 104(1961). Type: Ethiopia, Menisa, Quartin Dillon & Petit (W, holo. !)
BERBERIS grantii Ahrendt [family BERBERIDACEAE], in J.L.S. 57: 103 (1961). Type: Tanganyika, W. Usambara Mts., D. K. S. Grant 19 (K, holo. !)
Information
Glabrous shrub, 1–3 m. tall. Young branches partially tinged dull red-brown, with many short shoots, 3–10(–15) mm. long, subtended by 3–5-fid spines; spines 1–4 cm. long, sulcate below. Leaves crowded, shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; lateral leaflets very reduced, subulate or filiform, 1–3(–4) mm. long, persistent; terminal leaflet oblanceolate to obovate, 2.3–7 cm. long, 0.9–3.8 cm. wide, mucronate, entire or usually with several to 20 spiny teeth, coriaceous; venation open reticulate, with the lateral veins very oblique at the base, more spreading above; petiole 1–2 mm. long. Inflorescences of 8–15(–24) flowers in little-branched irregular panicles, 2.5–7.5 cm. long; bracts mostly narrowly triangular, up to 5 mm. long, with the lowermost ones often large and leafy. Flowers yellow, sometimes tinged red; perianth-segments in 5 series of 3; inner sepals the largest, spreading, rounded at the apex, 6–7 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide; petals 6, brighter yellow, obovate, 4.5–6 mm. long, 2–4.5 mm. wide, with 2 glands near the base. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, with 2–4–6 ovules. Berry ellipsoid, 8–12 mm. long, 6–7 mm. across, plum-red to dark purple, pruinose, perfecting 1–4 seeds. Stigma persistent. Seeds 5–7 mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, brown, finely rugulose. Fig. 1.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1–4, 6; T2, 3, 6, 7 highland areas from Somali Republic (N.) to Malawi and Zambia (Nyika Plateau)
Altitude range
1500–3450 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Ndoto Mts., Sirwan, 1 Jan. 1959, Newbould 3401!KENYA Mt. Kenya, June 1909, Battiscombe 92!KENYA Masai District S. slope of Mau escarpment, 3 Sept. 1936, D. C. Edwards 63 !TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Mt. Hanang, Gendabe, 11 Feb. 1946, Greenway 7693 !TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Lukwangule plateau, 13 Mar. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1553 !TANGANYIKA Iringa District 21 km. S. of Dabaga, Idewe Forest Reserve, 20 Feb. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 1546 !UGANDA Karamoja District Mt. Moruongole, 11 Nov. 1939, A. S. Thomas 3284! & Mt. Moroto, Sept. 1956, Wilson 268 ! & June 1963, Tweedie 2660 !
Notes
Closely related to the Himalayan B. aristata DC., differing in the characters d by Wild in F.Z. 1: 173 (1960).