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Lycium schizocalyx

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Identification
Lycium schizocalyx C.H.Wright [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for LYCIUM schizocalyx C. H. Wright [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 87, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
LYCIUM schizocalyx C. H. Wright [family SOLANACEAE]
Information
stem much branched; branches brownish-purple, glaucescent, spine-tipped; leaves linear or narrowly oblanceolate, up to 7 lin. long and 1/2 lin. wide, glabrous, finely rugose when dry; flowers solitary from the centre of the fascicles of leaves; peduncles slender, 3–4 lin. long; calyx 3 1/2 lin. long, divided more than halfway into 5 oblong acute minutely ciliate lobes; corolla funnel-shaped; tube about as long as the calyx; lobes 1 1/2–2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, spreading, minutely ciliate; stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, exserted; filaments hairy at the base, filiform; style a little longer than the stamens; fruit depressed globose, about 2 lin. in diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Cradock Div.; hillside at Witmoss station, 2400 ft., Galpin, 3080! Graaff Reinet Div.; in thickets near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 741! in valleys of the Sneeuwberg Range, 3500 ft., Bolus, 2074!

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