Berberis ahrendtii is an Indian shrub in the barberry family first described as a species in 1926.[2] The name given to it at that time had to be changed later because it was discovered that the 1926 name was a homonym of a name applied to a Venezuelan plant in 1863.[3][4][5]

Berberis ahrendtii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Berberidaceae
Genus: Berberis
Species:
B. ahrendtii
Binomial name
Berberis ahrendtii
R.R.Rao & Uniyal 1986
Synonyms[1]

Berberis lycioides Stapf 1926 not Linden & Planch. 1863

Berberis ahrendtii is known only from the Chamoli and Pithoragarh districts of Uttarakhand in northern India. The species was long thought to be extinct because it had not been collected in nearly 100 years until living populations were discovered recently.[6]

Sources

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  1. ^ Tropicos, Berberis ahrendtii
  2. ^ Stapf, Otto. 1926. Botanical Magazine 151: plate 9102
  3. ^ Linden, Jean Jules & Planchon, Jules Émile. 1863. Troisieme Voyage de J. Linden, Plantae Columbianae
  4. ^ Rao, R. Raghavendra & Uniyal, B. P. 1986. Indian Journal of Forestry 8: 334
  5. ^ The International Plant Names Index, search for Berberis lycioides
  6. ^ Umeshkumar L. Tiwari, Gopal Singh Rawat & Bhupendra Singh Adhikari. 2012. Rediscovery of two endemic species of Berberis from Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India. Biodiv. Res. Conserv. 28: 19-24