V monografii rassmatrivayutsya osobennosti trekh populyatsiy redkogo i endemichnogo vida yugo-vostoka Kazakhstana barbarisa iliyskogo (Berberis iliensis), izmenchivost' biometricheskikh pokazateley ego generativnykh i vegetativnykh pobegov, plodov, semyan, privoditsya analiz flory izuchennykh populyatsiy barbarisa iliyskogo, daetsya opisanie i analiz osobennostey morfo-anatomicheskoy struktury ego lista, pobega i kornya v trekh issledovannykh populyatsiyakh.