Vasilis Teodoridis:
Berberis jamesiana Forrest & W. W. Smith; Notes Roy.
Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 9: 81. 1916.
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Berberis jamesiana var. leucocarpa (W. W. Smith)
Ahrendt; B. jamesiana var. sepium Ahrendt; B. leucocarpa W.
W. Smith; B. nummularia Bunge var. sinica C. K. Schneider.
Shrubs; deciduous; 1–3.5 m tall. Mature stems shiny; red
or purple; not verruculose; subterete or sulcate; spines simple or
3-fid; semi-concolorous; 1.5–5 cm; stout; adaxially slightly
sulcate. Petiole 1–3 mm; leaf blade abaxially gray-green;
adaxially dull green; elliptic or oblong-obovate; 2.5–8 x 1–4
cm; subleathery; abaxially sometimes slightly pruinose; midvein
obviously raised adaxially; lateral and reticulate veins conspicuous
abaxially; base cuneate; margin entire or closely spinuloseserrulate;
apex rounded or retuse. Inflorescence a raceme; sometimes
compound below; 20–40-flowered; 7–10 cm. Pedicel 7–
10 mm; slender; glabrous; bractlets ovate; 2–2.5 x ca. 1.5 mm;
apex acute. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals oblong-obovate; ca.
3 x 2 mm; inner sepals narrowly obovate; ca. 4.5 x 2.5 mm.
Petals obovate or narrowly oblong-elliptic; ca. 4.5 x 2 mm; base
clawed; glands separate; apex emarginate; lobes acute. Stamens
ca. 3 mm; anther connective prolonged; slightly apiculate.
Ovules 2. Berry initially creamy white; ultimately light red or
pink; translucent; not pruinose; subglobose; ca. 10 x 7–8 mm;
style not persistent. Fl. Apr–May; fr. Jun–Sep.
? Thickets; forests; forest margins; riversides; mountain slopes;
2100–3600 m. W Sichuan; SE Xizang; NW Yunnan.