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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhamnus smithii
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pittonia
|place=3: 17. 1896
|year=1896
}}
|common_names=Smith's buckthorn
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Rhamnus;Rhamnus smithii
|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 smithii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 46
|treatment_page=page 49
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 1–3 m, unarmed. <b>Branchlets</b> greenish to brown, 5 cm, minutely puberulent, glabrescent. <b>Bud</b> scales pale golden to yellowish, thin, glossy. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, usually alternate, rarely subopposite; petiole 3–6(–8) mm; blade green abaxially, glossy green or yellow-green adaxially, usually lanceolate, sometimes elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3–8 cm, herbaceous to subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins crenulate to serrulate, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, both surfaces glabrous; secondary veins 7–11 pairs, all diverging at nearly same angle. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary fascicles or flowers solitary. <b>Pedicels</b> (0–)0.5–2.5 mm. <b>Sepals</b> 4. <b>Petals</b> 4. <b>Drupes</b> black, globose or slightly elongate, 4–6(–8) mm; stones 2.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, grassy hillsides, gravelly terraces, shale knolls, mesic slopes, rocky meadows, sandy alluvium, sagebrush, conifer forests.
|elevation=2100–2600(–3000) m.
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
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name=Rhamnus smithii
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, grassy hillsides, gravelly terraces, shale knolls, mesic slopes, rocky meadows, sandy alluvium, sagebrush, conifer forests.
|elevation=2100–2600(–3000) m.
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pittonia
|publication year=1896
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Rhamnus
|species=Rhamnus smithii
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