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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Adolphia californica Flowers.jpg
|image_caption = ''Adolphia californica''
|taxon = Adolphia
|authority = [[Meisn.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 2 - see text
}}
'''''Adolphia''''' is a genus of shrubs in the [[Rhamnaceae|buckthorn family]] containing only two species.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Adolphia'' Meisn. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:33388-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
These are rigid, thorny, flowering bushes. ''[[Adolphia californica]]'' {{small|S.Watson}}, the ''California prickbush'' or ''California spineshrub'', are native to southern California and northern Mexico. ''[[Adolphia infesta]]'' {{small|(Kunth) Meisn.}}, the ''junco'', is found in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.<ref name="POWO"/>
This genus is named for the French botanist [[Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart]] (1801–1876).<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. on page 70 in 1837.<ref name="POWO"/>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?6586,6587 Jepson Manual Treatment]
*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ADOLP USDA Plants Profile]
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[[Category:Rhamnaceae]]
[[Category:Rhamnaceae genera]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1837]]
[[Category:Flora of California]]
[[Category:Flora of Arizona]]
[[Category:Flora of Mexico]]
[[Category:Flora of Texas]]
[[Category:Flora of New Mexico]]
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