Common Name: BUCKTHORN FAMILY Habit: [Perennial herb] shrub, tree, generally erect, often thorny. Leaf: simple, generally alternate, often clustered on short-shoots; stipules generally present, occasionally modified into spines; generally petioled; blade pinnate-veined or 1--5-ribbed from base. Inflorescence: cyme, panicle, umbel, or flowers 1 or clustered in axils or on short-shoots. Flower: generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium subtending, surrounding, or partly fused to ovary; sepals 4--5; petals 0, 4--5, generally clawed; stamens 0, 4--5, alternate sepals, attached to hypanthium top, each generally fitting into a petal concavity; disk (0 or) between stamens, ovary, thin to fleshy, entire or lobed, free from ovary, adherent or fused to hypanthium; ovary superior or +- inferior, chambers [1]2--4, 1--2-ovuled, style 1, stigma entire or 2--3-lobed. Fruit: capsule, drupe. Genera In Family: 50--52 genera, 950 species: especially tropics, subtropics some cultivated (Ceanothus; Frangula; Rhamnus; Ziziphus). eFlora Treatment Author: John O. Sawyer, Jr., except as noted Scientific Editor: Steve Boyd, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Tree, shrub [vine]. Stem: branches alternate, flexible or stiff, +- 2--3-ranked; twigs +- pendent, zigzag. Leaf: clustered on short-shoots or not, deciduous or not, petioled; stipules +- spine-like or not, unequal; blade elliptic to obovate, +- entire to serrate, 1--5-ribbed from base. Inflorescence: cyme or small panicle. Flower: hypanthium surrounding base of ovary; sepals 5; petals 5, < to > sepals; stamens 5; disk thick, +- obscuring ovary in early flower; ovary widely attached at base, chambers 2, each 1-ovuled, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit: drupe, stone 1. Etymology: (Latin: from Arabic "zizouf," common jujube, Ziziphus zizyphus) eFlora Treatment Author: John O. Sawyer, Jr. Reference: Islam & Simmons 2006 Syst Bot 31:826--842 Unabridged Reference: Johnston 1963 Amer J Bot 50:1020--1027
Ziziphus parryi Torr. var. parryi
NATIVE Habit: Shrub, < 4 m. Stem: bark gray to brown, smooth; branches pale green-yellow to +- purple; twigs 1.3--3 cm, stiff, spreading, thorn-tipped, with 1 node, 1 short-shoot, glabrous. Leaf: deciduous, membranous; stipules brown; blade 10--25 mm, elliptic to obovate, dull olive-green, margin +- entire. Inflorescence: 2--4-flowered. Flower: hypanthium 2--2.2 mm wide, purple-green, glabrous; sepals green; petals white; pistil green. Fruit: dry, 10--25 mm, beaked, brown. Ecology: Uncommon. Chaparral; Elevation: 15--1220 m. Bioregional Distribution: SCo, SnBr, PR, DMoj, w edge DSon; Distribution Outside California: Mexico. Flowering Time: Feb--Apr Note: 1 other variety, in Baja California including Cedros Island. Unabridged Synonyms: Condalia parryi (Torr.) Weberb. Unabridged Note:Ziziphus parryi var. microphylla (I.M. Johnst.) M.C. Johnst. in Baja California including Cedros Island. Jepson eFlora Author: John O. Sawyer, Jr. Reference: Islam & Simmons 2006 Syst Bot 31:826--842 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Ziziphus obtusifolia var. canescens Next taxon: Ziziphus zizyphus
Botanical illustration including Ziziphus parryi var. parryi
Citation for this treatment: John O. Sawyer, Jr. 2012, Ziziphus parryi var. parryi, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=77251, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
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