Adolphia

Adolphia is a genus of shrubs in the buckthorn family containing only two species.^[1]

Adolphia
Adolphia californica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rhamnaceae
Tribe:	Colletieae
Genus:	Adolphia Meisn.
Species
2 - see text

These are rigid, thorny, flowering bushes. Adolphia californica S.Watson, the California prickbush or California spineshrub, are native to southern California and northern Mexico. Adolphia infesta (Kunth) Meisn., the junco, is found in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.^[1]

This genus is named for the French botanist Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876).^[2] It was first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. on page 70 in 1837.^[1]