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Lycium cinereum

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Identification
Lycium cinereum Not on sheet. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Lycium arenicolum
  • Lycium cinereum
  • Lycium horridum
  • Lycium leptacanthum
  • Lycium oxycladum
  • Lycium prunus-spinosa
  • Lycium roridum

Flora

Entry for LYCIUM cinereum 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 cinereum Thunb. [family SOLANACEAE], Prodr. 37;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 192, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 152, t. 16; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 516; Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 20.
LYCIUM apiculatum Dunal [family SOLANACEAE], l.c. 517, incl. vars. brevifolium and longifolium.
LYCIUM tetrandrum Miers [family SOLANACEAE], l.c. 19, not of Thunb.
Acokanthera lycioides G. Don [family APOCYNACEAE], Gen. Syst. iv. 485.
Cestrum lycioides Lichtenst. ex Roem. & Schultes [family SOLANACEAE], Syst. iv. 558, not of Sendtn.
Information
a shrub 3 ft. or more high; stem erect, rigid, glabrous, ashy-white; branches patent, terete, spiny; leaves fascicled, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glaucous, 2–4 lin. long, 1/2–1 lin. wide; flowers solitary; peduncles filiform, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; calyx cupular, glabrous, shortly 5-toothed, 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla obconic; tube 2 1/2 lin. long; lobes 5, short, ovate, acute; stamens included, inserted about 1 lin. up the corolla-tube; filaments hairy at the base; ovary conical. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Murraysburg Div.; near Murraysburg, 4000–4700 ft., Tyson, 320!COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; near Ebenezer, Drège, 7872!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Drège, 7868! Zeyher, 1259! Bowker!
Notes
A plant collected in Great Namaqualand by Schinz, 475, may belong to this species.

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