Condalia warnockii |
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Warnock's condalia, Warnock's snakewood |
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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. |
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Inflorescences | on short shoots, mostly 1–2-flowered. |
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Pedicels | 0.5–3 mm. |
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Flowers | sepals persistent in fruit; petals 0. |
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Drupes | globose to fusiform-globose or depressed-globose, 4–6 mm; stones 1–2-seeded. |
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Condalia warnockii |
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Distribution |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 63. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rhamnaceae > Condalia | ||||
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Name authority | M. C. Johnston: Brittonia 14: 352. (1962) | ||||
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