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|accepted_name=Rhamnus pirifolia
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pittonia
|place=3: 15. 1896
|year=1896
}}
|common_names=Island redberry
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhamnus crocea subsp. pirifolia
|authority=(Greene) C. B. Wolf
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=R. crocea var. pirifolia
|authority=(Greene) Little
}}
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Rhamnus;Rhamnus pirifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhamnus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhamnus pirifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 46
|treatment_page=page 47
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>to small trees, 2.5–6(–10) m, unarmed. <b>Branchlets</b> purple to gray, glabrous or puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate; petiole 5–10 mm; blade dull reddish to yellowish brown abaxially, usually shiny green adaxially, broadly elliptic to oblong or ovate-oblong, (1.5–)2–5(–6) cm, distinctly coriaceous, base cuneate to nearly truncate, margins blunt-serrate or entire, apex acute to rounded, apiculate, both surfaces glabrous; secondary veins 5–9 pairs, all diverging at nearly same angle. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles or flowers solitary. <b>Pedicels</b> 3–6 mm. <b>Sepals</b> 4. <b>Petals</b> 0. <b>Drupes</b> red, globose, 6–8 mm; stones 2.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Jan–)Feb–Jun.
|habitat=Steep slopes, canyon walls and bottoms, dunes, grasslands, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, pine woodlands.
|elevation=10–500 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Rhamnus pirifolia</i> is known in California on the Channel Islands and in Baja California on Guadalupe Island; it has not been implicated in hybridization with other members of the <i>R. crocea</i> complex.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhamnus pirifolia
|author=
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhamnus crocea subsp. pirifolia;R. crocea var. pirifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Jan–)Feb–Jun.
|habitat=Steep slopes, canyon walls and bottoms, dunes, grasslands, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, pine woodlands.
|elevation=10–500 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Pittonia
|publication year=1896
|special status=
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|genus=Rhamnus
|species=Rhamnus pirifolia
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