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Lycium arenicolum

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Name

Identification
Lycium horridum Thunb. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Venter, A.M., Lycium cinereum Thunb. [family SOLANACEAE ] Lycium arenicolum Miers [family SOLANACEAE ]
Related name
  • Lycium arenicolum
  • Lycium cinereum
  • Lycium horridum
  • Lycium tetrandrum

Flora

Entry for LYCIUM arenicolum Miers [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 arenicolum Miers [family SOLANACEAE], in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 14;—Ill. S. Amer. Pl. ii. t. 65, fig. E.
Information
a much-branched shrub, 9 ft. high; branches glaucous, purplish, with decurrent ridges from the cupular nodes; leaves sessile in fascicles of 5–10, linear, 5–7 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, acute, rather fleshy; flowers solitary on very short peduncles, 4-merous; calyx 1 lin. long, shortly and unequally 4-toothed; teeth ciliate; corolla about 2 1/2 lin. long, tubular; lobes 4, oblong, ciliate, 1/2 lin. long; stamens unequal, inserted a little above the corolla-base, 1 slightly exserted, 2 reaching the throat, the 4th included; filaments hirsute at the base; ovary ovoid, adnate to the red fleshy disk; style exserted; stigma capitate. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Var. β, Somerset Div.; banks of the Little Fish River, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1873! Scott-Elliot, 538!COAST REGION Mossel Bay Div.; dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz River, Burchell, 6484!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Orange River at Sand Drift, Burke!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1261!

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