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Shrub or small tree, generally ± leafless, thorny, unscented.
Stem: branches many, rigid, interlocking, glabrous to puberulent, smooth- papillate at 10×.
Leaf: simple, alternate, generally scale-like, ephemeral.
Inflorescence: raceme or ± umbel-like, axillary, bracted.
Flower: radial, bisexual, small; sepals 4, free; petals 4, free; stamens 8, filaments thick, 4-angled in ×-section; ovary ± stalked, spheric, style beak-like, straight, curved, or ± coiled when dry, stigma entire, head-like, or ± 3-lobed.
Fruit: berry spheric, fleshy; chambers 2, each 1–2-seeded; style base ± persistent.
1 genus, 2 species: sw North America, Mex, Bolivia. [Holmes et al. 2008 Brittonia 60:171–184] Often included in Capparaceae. —Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin.

(C.L. Koeberlin, German clergyman, botanist, b. 1794)

Plant 3–10 m, puberulent.
Stem: branchlets (25)33–70(82) mm, pale green, tips narrow, sharp-pointed, 3–6 mm, black or dark brown.
Leaf: < 2 mm.
Inflorescence: 1–7 cm, occasionally thorn-tipped; bracts ± 1.5 mm, linear, ± succulent; pedicels 3–6 mm.
Flower: sepals ± 1.3 mm, ovate- deltate, entire or ± irregularly minutely toothed, puberulent, pale green; petals 4–4.8 mm, short-clawed, blade obovate or oblanceolate, glabrous, white (yellow); stamens 2–4 mm, glabrous; ovary 1.8–2 mm diam, stalk 0.5–0.8 mm, style 1–1.2 mm, straight to ± S-curved when dry, stigma entire to minute-lobed.
Fruit: 4–5 mm, glabrous, black.
Creosote-bush scrub; 400 m. Sonoran Desert (Chocolate Mtns);

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Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].

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Bioregions in which taxon occurs	Red area (if present) is the part of the bioregion lying between the upper and lower elevation limits of the taxon; markers link to CCH specimen records. If the markers are obscured, reload the page [or change window size and reload]. Yellow markers indicate records that may have georeferencing or identification issues.
Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.