View source for Condalia

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Condalia
|accepted_authority=Cavanilles
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Anales Hist. Nat.
|place=1: 39, plate 4. 1799
|year=1799
}}
|common_names=Snakewood
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Condalia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Condalia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Antonio Condal, 1745–1804, Spanish physician who accompanied Peter Loefling on a journey up the Orinoco River
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 43, 45, 62, 70, 72, 436
|treatment_page=page 61
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, usually armed with thorns, sometimes unarmed; bud scales absent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, alternate, mostly borne on short shoots and usually fascicled; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, within foliage, fascicles or flowers solitary; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. <b>Pedicels</b> present or absent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; hypanthium hemispheric, 1–1.5 mm wide; sepals 5, spreading, greenish abaxially, yellowish adaxially, deltate, keeled adaxially; petals 0 (5, yellow, hooded, spatulate, short-clawed in <i>C. ericoides</i>); nectary absent, thin, or margin thickened, lining hypanthium; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2-locular at least early in development, 1 locule often suppressed; style 1. <b>Fruits</b> drupes; stone 1, indehiscent.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=w United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 18 (7 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A close relationship between <i>Condalia</i> and <i>Ziziphus</i> might be inferred from numerous synonyms of one genus within the other—drupaceous fruits are produced in both genera. However, the closest relatives of <i>Condalia</i> appear to be <i>Karwinskia</i> and Rhamnidium Reissek (J. E. Richardson et al. 2000) of Central America, South America, and the West Indies, and only slightly more distantly, <i>Berchemia</i>, <i>Rhamnus</i>, and <i>Sageretia</i>.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=johnston1962a
|text=Johnston, M. C. 1962. Revision of Condalia including Microrhamnus (Rhamnaceae). Brittonia 14: 332–368.
}}
}}<!--

--><div class="treatment-key">
==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades linear; petals 5.
|[[Condalia ericoides|Condalia ericoides]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades spatulate to obovate or elliptic; petals 0.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades spatulate to spatulate-elliptic, venation conspicuous abaxially.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade surfaces glabrous, abaxial intervein surfaces with rounded transverse ridges, surface appearing as if molded in wax; branches glabrous.
|[[Condalia spathulata|Condalia spathulata]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade surfaces hispidulous, puberulent, or densely short-villous to velutinous, abaxial intervein surfaces microvesiculate, not appearing waxy; branches hispidulous or densely short-villous to velutinous.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Pedicels 2.5–4.5(–6.5) mm; internodes 2–7 mm; sepals deciduous in fruit; leaf blade apices obtuse to mucronate.
|[[Condalia globosa|Condalia globosa]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Pedicels 0.5–3 mm; internodes 0.5–2(–3) mm; sepals persistent in fruit; leaf blade apices acute.
|[[Condalia warnockii|Condalia warnockii]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades obovate to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, venation inconspicuous abaxially.
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaf blades (10–)15–20(–31) × (5–)9–12(–19) mm, apices on a single plant consistently rounded to truncate-emarginate.
|[[Condalia hookeri|Condalia hookeri]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaf blades 5–11(–21) × 2.5–6(–10) mm, apices on a single plant acute to rounded, truncate, or emarginate.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Secondary branches sparsely hispidulous or glabrate; petioles 3–10 mm; drupes 5–6 mm.
|[[Condalia viridis|Condalia viridis]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Secondary branches densely hispidulous; petioles 1–3 mm; drupes 8 mm.
|[[Condalia correllii|Condalia correllii]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Condalia
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Cavanilles
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|distribution=w United States;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=johnston1962a
|publication title=Anales Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1799
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_668.xml
|genus=Condalia
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Rhamnaceae]]