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Warnock's condalia, Warnock's snakewood

Habit Shrubs, 0.5–3 m; primary branches thorn-tipped, secondary branches thorn-tipped, with short shoots and occasionally a few tertiary thorns, hispidulous or densely short villous to velutinous; internodes 0.5–2(–3) mm.
Leaves

petiole 0–2 mm;

blade yellowish to brownish olive or gray-green adaxially, spatulate, 3–7(–10) × 0.5–2.5(–5) mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, not revolute, apex acute, surfaces hispidulous or densely short villous to velutinous, abaxial intervein surfaces microvesiculate, not appearing waxy;

venation raised and conspicuous abaxially.

Inflorescences

on short shoots, mostly 1–2-flowered.

Pedicels

0.5–3 mm.

Flowers

sepals persistent in fruit;

petals 0.

Drupes

globose to fusiform-globose or depressed-globose, 4–6 mm;

stones 1–2-seeded.

Condalia warnockii

Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Internodes 1–2(–3) mm; leaf blades 1–2.5(–5) mm wide, length usually 2–2.5 times width.
var. warnockii
1. Internodes 0.5–1(–2.5) mm; leaf blades 0.5–1.5(–2) mm wide, length usually 2.5–3.5 times width.
var. kearneyana
Source FNA vol. 12, p. 63.
Parent taxa Rhamnaceae > Condalia
Sibling taxa
C. correllii, C. ericoides, C. globosa, C. hookeri, C. spathulata, C. viridis
Subordinate taxa
C. warnockii var. kearneyana, C. warnockii var. warnockii
Name authority M. C. Johnston: Brittonia 14: 352. (1962)
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