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|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
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism architecture;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism size;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form"><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, usually armed with thorns, sometimes unarmed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="bud-scale presence">bud-scales absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf arrangement;leaf architecture or arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>deciduous, alternate, mostly borne on short-shoots and usually fascicled;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="">blade not gland-dotted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade coloration;blade architecture">pinnately veined.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence position;inflorescence arrangement;flower architecture or arrangement or growth form"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary, within foliage, fascicles or flowers solitary;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="peduncle texture;pedicel texture">peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="pedicel presence;pedicel presence"><b>Pedicels </b>present or absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower reproduction"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="hypanthium shape;hypanthium width">hypanthium hemispheric, 1–1.5 mm wide;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal orientation;sepal coloration;sepal coloration;sepal shape;sepal shape">sepals 5, spreading, greenish abaxially, yellowish adaxially, deltate, keeled adaxially;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="petal presence">petals 0 (5, yellow, hooded, spatulate, short-clawed in C. ericoides);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="nectary presence;nectary width;margin size or width">nectary absent, thin, or margin thickened, lining hypanthium;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 5;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="ovary position;ovary development;ovary quantity;locule prominence">ovary superior, 2-locular at least early in development, 1 locule often suppressed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="style quantity">style 1.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties=""><b>Fruits </b>drupes;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="stone quantity;stone dehiscence">stone 1, indehiscent.</span><!--

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|distribution=w United States;Mexico;Central America;South America
|discussion=<p>Species 18 (7 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A close relationship between Condalia and Ziziphus might be inferred from numerous synonyms of one genus within the other—drupaceous fruits are produced in both genera. However, the closest relatives of Condalia appear to be Karwinskia and Rhamnidium Reissek (J. E. Richardson et al. 2000) of Central America, South America, and the West Indies, and only slightly more distantly, Berchemia, Rhamnus, and Sageretia.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=johnston1962a
|text=Johnston, M. C. 1962. Revision of Condalia including Microrhamnus (Rhamnaceae). Brittonia 14: 332–368.
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==Key==
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{| 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]]
|}
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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=
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|blade architecture=veined
|blade coloration=not gland-dotted
|bud-scale presence=absent
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|hypanthium shape=hemispheric
|hypanthium width=1mm;1.5mm
|inflorescence arrangement=fascicles
|inflorescence position=axillary
|leaf architecture or arrangement=fascicled
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf duration=deciduous
|locule prominence=suppressed
|margin size or width=thickened
|nectary presence=absent
|nectary width=thin
|ovary development=2-locular
|ovary position=superior
|ovary quantity=1
|pedicel presence=absent;absent
|pedicel texture=not fleshy
|peduncle texture=not fleshy
|petal presence=absent
|sepal coloration=yellowish;greenish
|sepal orientation=spreading
|sepal quantity=5
|sepal shape=keeled;deltate
|stamen quantity=5
|stone dehiscence=indehiscent
|stone quantity=1
|style quantity=1
|whole_organism architecture=unarmed;armed;unarmed;armed
|whole_organism growth form=tree;shrub
|whole_organism size=small
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