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|accepted_name=Adolphia
|accepted_authority=Meisner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pl. Vasc. Gen.
|place=1: 70; 2: 50. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|common_names=Prickbush;spinebrush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Adolphia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Adolphia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Adolphe Brongniart, 1801–1876, French botanist and student of Rhamnaceae
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 45
|treatment_page=page 108
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> armed with thorns, secondary branches and branchlets green; bud scales absent. <b>Leaves</b> early deciduous, usually absent by flowering, opposite or subopposite; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined (obscurely, appearing 1-veined or vaguely 3-veined from base). <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, cymes or flowers solitary; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; hypanthium broadly obconic to hemispheric-campanulate, 1.5–3 mm wide; sepals (4–)5, spreading, whitish to greenish white, ovate-triangular or triangular-deltate, keeled adaxially; petals (4–)5, white, sometimes yellow-tipped, hooded, spatulate, clawed; nectary fleshy, 5-angled, lining hypanthium; stamens (4–)5; ovary superior, 3-locular; style 1. <b>Fruits</b> capsules.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=mantese1993a
|text=Mantese, A. and D. Medan. 1993. Anatomía y arquitectura foliares de Colletia y Adolphia (Rhamnaceae). Darwiniana 32: 91–97.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=tortosa1993a
|text=Tortosa, R. D. 1993. Revisión del género Adolphia (Rhamnaceae: Colletieae). Darwiniana 32: 185–189.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Secondary branches and branchlets glabrous or glabrate, branchlets 1–1.5 mm diam.; leaf blades elliptic-oblong to obovate, 1- or vaguely 3-veined from base; hypanthia broadly obconic, 2.5–3 mm wide, sides nearly straight; sepals triangular-deltate, length equaling width, margins straight; petals 2–2.5 mm, deeply hooded.
|[[Adolphia californica|Adolphia californica]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Secondary branches and branchlets minutely and persistently short-hispid, slowly glabrescent, branchlets usually 0.5–1 mm diam.; leaf blades narrowly oblanceolate to linear, 1-veined from base; hypanthia hemispheric-campanulate, 1.5 mm wide, sides convex; sepals ovate-triangular, length nearly 2 times width, margins curved; petals 1.2–1.5 mm, shallowly hooded.
|[[Adolphia infesta|Adolphia infesta]]
|}
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name=Adolphia
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Meisner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico.
|reference=mantese1993a;tortosa1993a
|publication title=Pl. Vasc. Gen.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
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|genus=Adolphia
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