''Berberis bracteolata'' is a shrub in the

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

described as a species in 1917. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found 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 found els ...

to China, known from

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of th ...

and

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...

Provinces.Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 773 鹤庆十大功劳 he qing shi da gong lao ''Mahonia bracteolata'' Takeda
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Taxonomy

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

Hisayoshi Takeda Hisayoshi Takeda was a Japanese botanist whose father was the British diplomat Sir Ernest Satow. He was a founder of the Japanese Natural History Society, and is known for his campaign to preserve the environment at Oze, which is now Oze Nati ...

. In 1997 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 titled ...

arguing for moving it and other species out of genus ''

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

'' to genus ''Berberis'' that has since become the most commonly accepted classification.

References

bracteolata Endemic flora of China Plants described in 1917 {{Ranunculales-stub