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|accepted_name=Colubrina texensis
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|place=6: 169. 1850
|year=1850
}}
|common_names=Texan hog-plum
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhamnus texensis
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=1: 263. 1838
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Colubrina;Colubrina texensis
|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 texensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 74
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, erect, 1–2(–2.8) m. <b>Stems</b> zigzag, white tomentose-sericeous, becoming glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, sometimes fascicled on short shoots; petiole 1–4 mm; blade ovate to elliptic, oblong-obovate, or obovate, 1–3(–4) cm, subcoriaceous, base rounded to subcordate, margins shallowly serrate, teeth 10–20 per side, apex rounded, often apiculate, abaxial surface loosely sericeous, adaxial glabrate; pinnately veined, secondary veins (2–)3–4 pairs, arcuate, basal pair prominent. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles, 2–4(–7)-flowered, or flowers solitary; peduncles absent; fruiting pedicels 5–13 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 6–9 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Fencerows, roadsides, disturbed sites, clay banks, shell ridges, loose sand, sandy loam, rocky limestone slopes and crevices, gravel hills, stream banks, alluvial terraces, gravelly flood plains, shrub-grasslands, mesquite shrublands, oak-mesquite, oak-juniper, and mesquite-hackberry woodlands.
|elevation=0–800 m.
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Colubrina texensis</i> is widespread in central and southern Texas.</p>
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|references=
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name=Colubrina texensis
|author=
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Rhamnus texensis
|family=Rhamnaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Fencerows, roadsides, disturbed sites, clay banks, shell ridges, loose sand, sandy loam, rocky limestone slopes and crevices, gravel hills, stream banks, alluvial terraces, gravelly flood plains, shrub-grasslands, mesquite shrublands, oak-mesquite, oak-juniper, and mesquite-hackberry woodlands.
|elevation=0–800 m.
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|publication year=1850
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Colubrina
|species=Colubrina texensis
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