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Lycium tetrandrum

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Identification
Lycium tetrandrum Thunb. [family SOLANACEAE ]
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  • Lycium tetrandrum

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Entry for LYCIUM tetrandrum Thunb. [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 tetrandrum Thunb. [family SOLANACEAE], Prodr. 37;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 192, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 154, t. 15; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 516; Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 19, partly, and Ill. S. Amer. Pl. t. 66, fig. F.
LYCIUM horridum Thunb. [family SOLANACEAE], Prodr. 37, Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 192, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 154, t. 17; Dunal, l.c. 516.
LYCIUM horridum O. Kuntze var. tetrandrum [family SOLANACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 221–222.
LYCIUM capense Mill. [family SOLANACEAE], Gard. Dict. ed. 8, no. 7.
LYCIUM sp. Drège [family SOLANACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 107.
Information
a very much branched shrub, 6–7 ft. high; branchlets glabrous, spiny; leaves fascicled, ovate- or oblong-elliptic, obtuse or subacute, acute at the base, 3 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, entire, rather thick, glabrous; flowers solitary; peduncle filiform, thickened at the apex, 1/2–1 lin. long; calyx cupshaped, glabrous, 1 lin. long; teeth 4, short, triangular; corolla white, 3–4 lin. long; tube obconic; lobes 4, orbicular, reflexed; stamens 4, inserted halfway up the corolla-tube; filaments hairy at the base, exserted; ovary subglobose; style as long as the stamens; fruit subglobose. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; near Little Fish River and Great Fish River, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 7869! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 282! descent of the Voor Sneeuw Berg, Burchell, 2841!COAST REGION Piquetberg Div.; near the sea near Verloren Valley, Thunberg! Malmesbury Div.; Saldanha Bay, Thunberg! Cape Div.; between Lion Mountain and the shore near Cape Town, Thunberg! Mossel Bay Div.; near Great Brak River, 300 ft., Galpin, 4353! Knysna Div.; Plettenberg Bay, Pappe! Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River Valley, 50–500 ft., Zeyher, 865! 3460, 3461! Alexandria Div.; Bushmans River Station, 1120 ft., Galpin, 2978! Victoria East Div.; by the Kat River, Baur! Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, 3000–3500 ft., Baur, 975! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 141! 420!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Harvey!
Notes
O. Kuntze (Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 221) a variety with pentamerous flowers from Beaufort West, which he calls L. horridum, var. pentandrum.

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