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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Colubrina elliptica
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Brizicky & W. L. Stern
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trop. Woods
|place=109: 95. 1958
|year=1958
}}
|common_names=Soldierwood
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhamnus elliptica
|authority=Swartz
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Colubrina reclinata
|authority=(L'Héritier) Brongniart
}}
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Colubrina;Colubrina elliptica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Colubrina]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Colubrina elliptica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 74
|treatment_page=page 77
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, erect, 2–6 m. <b>Stems</b> straight, strigose, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 5–20 mm; blade broadly elliptic to elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4–9 cm, herbaceous, base cuneate to rounded, 2 prominent glands at petiole/blade junction, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface sparsely strigose, glabrescent, adaxial surface glabrous; pinnately veined, secondary veins 5–8 pairs, arcuate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: thyrses, 8–20-flowered; peduncles 1–7 mm; fruiting pedicels 8–15 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 6–7 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Sep–Feb, possibly year-round.
|habitat=Rockland hammocks, hammock margins, thickets, rocky strands.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Venezuela).
|discussion=<p><i>Colubrina elliptica</i> is known in the flora area only from Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Colubrina elliptica
|author=
|authority=(Swartz) Brizicky & W. L. Stern
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Colubrina reclinata
|basionyms=Rhamnus elliptica
|family=Rhamnaceae
|phenology=Flowering Sep–Feb, possibly year-round.
|habitat=Rockland hammocks, hammock margins, thickets, rocky strands.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Venezuela).
|reference=None
|publication title=Trop. Woods
|publication year=1958
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_1095.xml
|genus=Colubrina
|species=Colubrina elliptica
}}<!--

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