''Berberis eurybracteata'' is a species of

shrub A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...

in the

Berberidaceae The Berberidaceae are a family (biology), family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order (biology), order Ranunculales. The family contains about 700 known species, of which the majority ...

described as a species in 1901. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

.Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 777 宽苞十大功劳 kuan bao shi da gong lao ''Mahonia eurybracteata'' Fedde
/ref> It was previously named ''Mahonia eurybracteata'', and is still often referred to by its former scientific name, especially in horticulture.

Taxonomy

''Berberis eurybracteata'' was initially scientifically described and named ''Mahonia eurybracteata'' by

Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (30 June 1873, Breslau (now Wrocław) – 14 March 1942, Berlin-Dahlem) was a German botanist. Biography Fedde studied natural sciences, commencing in 1892 and graduating in 1896 in Breslau. He was a teacher in schoo ...

. A paper was published by

Joseph Edward Laferrière Joseph Edward Laferrière (born 1955) is an American botanist with a particular interest in ethnobotany. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 1991 with a dissertation title ...

in 1997 summarized the arguments for reclassifying moving it and other species of genus ''

Mahonia ''Mahonia'' is a formerly accepted genus of approximately 70 species of shrubs or, rarely, small trees with evergreen leaves in the family Berberidaceae, native to eastern Asia, the Himalaya, North America, and Central America. They are closely ...

'' to be part of genus ''

Berberis ''Berberis'' (), commonly known as barberry, is a large genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs from tall, found throughout temperate and subtropical regions of the world (apart from Australia). Species diversity is greatest in South America a ...

''. As of 2023 this is the most commonly accepted classification.

References

eurybracteata Endemic flora of China Plants described in 1901 {{Berberidaceae-stub