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Berberis gracilipes Oliv.

Berberidaceae · China South-Central

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Berberis gracilipes, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBerberis gracilipes, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBerberis gracilipes, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBerberis gracilipes, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsBerberis gracilipes, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

Summary

Berberis gracilipes is a shrub in the family Berberidaceae, first described in 1887. It is endemic to China, native to the Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Berberis gracilipes", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Berberis

Berberis, commonly known as barberry, is a large genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs from 1–5 m tall, found throughout temperate and subtropical regions of the world. Species diversity is greatest in South America and Asia, but native species also appear in Europe, Africa, and North America.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Berberis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 15 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 15 of the 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 7300405 (Mahonia gracilipes (Oliv.) Fedde, 97 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker29.686, 107.287 · in the densest population, 8 records (53% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 359 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 7300405 (Mahonia gracilipes (Oliv.) Fedde): Kew's file holds it as Mahonia gracilipes (Oliv.) Fedde (synonym under Berberis gracilipes Oliv.); 97 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Berberis 135 in the reference

Berberis actinacantha Berberis actinacantha Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicolás Villaseca MerinoBerberis aemulans Berberis aemulans Berberidaceae Photo: Public domain, Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927)Berberis aetnensis Berberis aetnensis Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY, Yves BasBerberis aggregata Berberis aggregata Clustered barberry Photo: CC BY, Ola Vestre Berberis alpina Berberidaceae Berberis amurensis Berberis amurensis Amur barberry Photo: CC BY, Violetta DzizyurovaBerberis angulosa Berberis angulosa Berberidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedBerberis aristata Berberis aristata Indian barberry Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyBerberis aristatoserrulata Berberis aristatoserrulata Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuBerberis asiatica Berberis asiatica Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY, Patricia Rose Berberis atrocarpa Berberidaceae Berberis beaniana Berberis beaniana Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz all 136 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Mahonia gracilipes; Mahonia gracilipes var. rhombicus; Mahonia subtriplinervis; Berberis subtriplinervis. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Berberidaceae
Described by
Oliv.
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
15 in range · 5 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Berberis gracilipes Oliv. (plant_name_id 2673837), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 97 records of GBIF's key 7300405, Mahonia gracilipes (Oliv.) Fedde (Kew's file holds it as Mahonia gracilipes (Oliv.) Fedde (synonym under Berberis gracilipes Oliv.)): the GBIF download; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2215 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 106696-1, POWO 106696-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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