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Berberis aquifolium Pursh

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Berberis aquifolium Pursh (1814)
Berberis aquifolium Pursh

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Pursh
Pursh
1814
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Berberis aquifolium Pursh
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Berberis aquifolium

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aquifolium

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Shrub 0.5-1-(2) m high, many-stemmed and stoloniferous. Lvs to c. 25 cm long, composed of 3-7 pairs of sessile (excluding the terminal) leaflets, without basal pair of stipule-like leaflets; petiole (0)-1-4 cm long, dark red. Most leaflets 5-9.5 × 2.5-5 cm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, glossy above, prominently reticulate; margins undulate and spinose-dentate; apex spiny. Scales at base of fascicled racemes 5-10 mm long, membranous, brown. Racemes eventually to 6 or 7 cm long. Bracts broadly ovate, much < pedicels at anthesis. Perianth segments to 7 mm long, ovate to obovate, imbricate; segments of innermost whorl shorter and emarginate. Stamens included; filaments with 2 teeth. Stigma sessile. Berry c. 10 mm diam., globose, blue-black, pruinose.

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Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Mahonia aquifolium (Pursh) Nutt.
Berberis aquifolium Pursh
Mahonia aquifolium (Pursh) Nutt.
Berberis aquifolium Pursh

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Berberis aquifolium Pursh
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21 July 2010
24 March 2015
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