Berberis gagnepainii, or Gagnepain's barberry,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, first described in 1908.[2] It is endemic to China, known from Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan, and Yunnan Provinces.[3]
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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. gagnepainii
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| Berberis gagnepainii | |
Berberis gagnepainii is a shrub up to 2 m tall. The leaves are evergreen, simple, lanceolate to elliptical, toothed, the teeth tipped with short spines. The leaves and flowers are borne on short shoots in the axils of 3-parted spines. The inflorescence is a fascicle of 2-15 yellow flowers. The berries are glaucous (waxy), dark blue-black and oblong.[4]: 100 [3] Its habitats include montane thickets as well as forest margins and understories.[5]
Its name is dedicated to François Gagnepain.
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- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ Schneider, Camillo Karl. 1908. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier Ser. II. viii. 196
- ^ a b Flora of China, Vol. 19 Page 737 湖北小檗 hu bei xiao bo Berberis gagnepainii
- ^ Stace, C. A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521707725.
- ^ "Berberis gagnepainii in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2022-07-31.