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Berberis amplectens

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2022
Entity authorityQ16951257 ↗
Source-derived summary

Berberis amplectens is a rare species of shrubs endemic to the Peninsular Ranges of southern California, east of San Diego.

Description

It is an evergreen shrub up to 1.2 m (4 feet tall), with compound leaves and dark blue berries.

It can be distinguished from other species in the genus by having numerous teeth along the leaf margins, as many as 15 per leaflet.

The compound leaves place this species in the group sometimes segregated as the genus Mahonia.

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The public source identifies “Berberis amplectens” as species of plant. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Berberis, amplectens and species.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 79-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Berberis, amplectens and species providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q16951257. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Berberis amplectens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.