Berberis ehrenbergii is a shrub in the Berberidaceae described as a species in 1847. It is native to the States of Chiapas, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz in southern Mexico.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Berberidaceae |
| Genus: | Berberis |
| Species: | B. ehrenbergii
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| Binomial name | |
| Berberis ehrenbergii Kunze (1847)
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Taxonomy
editBerberis ehrenbergii was scientifically described and named by Gustav Kunze.[1][3] As part of the long continued debate over if certain species should be classified in genus Mahonia or in Berberis it was renamed Mahonia ehrenbergii by Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Bosse in 1860.[1] Unaware that it already had been so described Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde published it under the same name in 1901.[4] A third reclassification was published in 1922 by Paul Carpenter Standley as Odostemon ehrenbergii.[1][5] A paper published by Joseph Edward Laferrière in 1997 summarized the arguments for Mahonia being more properly classified as a synonym of Berberis.[6] As of 2023 this is the most common classification by botanists.[1][7]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Berberis ehrenbergii Kunze". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Hassler, Michael (11 December 2023). "Mahonia". World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 18.3. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Kunze, Gustav (1847). "Pugillus Teritus Plantarum Adhuc Ineditarum Seu in Hortis Minus Cognitarum, Quas Annis 1843 — 1846, Praeter Alias Aho Loco Descriptas Vel Describendas, Coluit Hortus Botanicus Univers. Litterarum Lipsiensis". Linnaea: Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange (in Latin). 20 (4): 45–46. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Fedde, Friedrich Karl Georg (1901). "Versuch einer Monographie der Gattung Mahonia". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (in Latin and German). 31 (1). Schweizerbart [etc.]: 106–107. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Paul Carpenter, Standley (1922). "Trees and Shrubs of Mexico". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 23 (2). Smithsonian Institution Press: 269–270. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Laferrière, Joseph Edward (1997). "Transfer of Specific and Infraspecific Taxa from Mahonia to Berberis (Berberidaceae)". Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 82 (9): 95–98. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ "Berberis ehrenbergii Kunze". World Flora Online. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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