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Berberis pruinosa Franch.

Yunnan Barberry

Berberidaceae · China South-Central, Tibet +1

No habitat climate
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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: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 72 of the 74 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.
NativeChina South-Central, Tibet, Myanmar · 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 marker25.371, 102.58 · in the densest population, 64 records (86% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 74 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 35 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 181 km away. 13 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 72 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.
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 74 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: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

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 Berberis amabilis var. holophylla; Berberis hibberdiana; Berberis pruinosa var. barresiana; Berberis pruinosa var. brevifolia; Berberis pruinosa var. brevipes and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Berberis dongchuanensis: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

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The record

Family
Berberidaceae
Described by
Franch.
Native to
China South-Central, Tibet, Myanmar
Wild records
74 in range · 35 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 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 10 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (9 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
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 24 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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