''Berberis breviracema'' 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 i ...

described as a species in 1985. It is endemic to

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, native to

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

and probably

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Provinces.Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 776 短序十大功劳 duan xu shi da gong lao ''Mahonia breviracema'' Y. S. Wang & P. K. Hsiao
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Taxonomy

''Berberis bracteolata'' was initially scientifically described by Yu Sheng Wang and Pei Ken Hsiao and named ''Mahonia breviracema''. 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 ...

summarizing arguments for synonymizing 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'' and ...

'' with genus ''Berberis'' and presenting a list of correct names that has since become the most commonly accepted classification of this and other species as of 2023.

References

breviracema Endemic flora of China Plants described in 1985 {{Ranunculales-stub