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Botanical name: Berberis napaulensis Family: Berberidaceae (Barberry family)
Synonyms: Mahonia napaulensis, Berberis leschenaultii, Mahonia manipurensis
Synonyms: Mahonia napaulensis, Berberis leschenaultii, Mahonia manipurensis
Nepal Barberry is an erect evergreen shrub to 3 m,
with stout little-branched stems and large pinnate leaves borne at the
ends of the stems. Flowers are yellow, in a at branch-ends cluster of
several or many dense many-flowered spikes, 10-25 cm long. Petals about
6 mm, notched. Leaves oblong-lanceshaped. to 40 cm, with 4-7 pairs of
stiff. slightly overlapping ovate leaflets with spiny marginal teeth
and pointed apices; leaflets largest in the middle of the leaf, 6-9 crn
long. Fruit in dense cylindrical clusters; berries purple-blue, round,
strongly bloomed, 8-9 mm across. Nepal Barberry is found in the
Himalayas, from W. Nepal to Bhutan, NE India, at altitudes of 2000-2900
m, and Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: 0ctober-April.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Mukurthi National Park, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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