Mahonia napaulensis, Indian barberry, Maramanjal

Mahonia napaulensis DC.
Family: Berberidaceae
Synonyms: Berberis napaulensis, Mahonia griffithii Takeda, Mahonia longlinensis Y.S. Wang & P.G. Xiao, Mahonia manipurensis Takeda, Mahonia napaulensis var. leschenaultii (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Fedde, Mahonia pomensis Ahrendt, Mahonia salweenensis Ahrendt, Mahonia sikkimensis Takeda

Common name: Nepal Mahonia, Indian barberry
Chinese: 尼泊尔十大功劳
Malayalam: Maramanjal, Mullukadambu

Description: Evergreen trees, 4-7 m tall; bark light brown, corky, vertically and horizontally fissured; blaze sulphur yellow. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, verticelled at the tips of branches; rachis 17-33 cm, slender, glabrous, base sheathing with 2 subulate stipules; leaflets 7-17, opposite, sessile; lamina 3-9 x 1-5 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate; base obliquely truncate, rounded, subcordate or very obtuse; apex cuspidate; margin spinose, glabrous, rigid, coriaceous, shining above, pale beneath; 3-5 nerved from the base, raised beneath; secondary laterals 3-5 pairs, pinnate; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in racemes generally fascicled at the apices of stem, in umbel fashion, erect or oblique, often paniculate, 7.5-40 cm; pedicels 6-16 mm, with 2-3 appressed bracts; sepals 6, imbricate in 2 series; petals 6, imbricate in 2 series; nectaries distinct; stamens 6, free, anthers-cells opening by recurved valves; ovary single celled; ovules 5-6, basal, erect; style stout; stigma peltate. Fruit a berry, 8 mm across, broadly ellipsoid-globose, purple, pruinose, bitter, 3-5 seeded.

3 Published articles of Mahonia napaulensis
1. Sonicator dyeing of modified cotton, wool and silk with Mahonia napaulensis DC. and identification of the colorant in Mahonia
By: Vankar, Padma S.; Shanker, Rakhi; Dixit, Shalini; et al.
INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS  Volume: 27   Issue: 3   Pages: 371-379   Published: MAY 2008
  
2. Sonicator dyeing of modified cotton, wool and silk with Mahonia napaulensis DC. and identification of the colorant in Mahonia.
Vankar, P. S.; Rakhi Shanker; Shalini Dixit; et al.
Industrial Crops and Products  Volume: 27   Issue: 3   Pages: 371-379   Published: 2008
  
3. Antifungal textile dyeing with Mahonia napaulensis d.c. leaves extract based on its antifungal activity
Bajpai, Dhara; Vankar, Padma S.
FIBERS AND POLYMERS  Volume: 8   Issue: 5   Pages: 487-494   Published: OCT 2007